Switch servers if a stream won't play. Your server and progress are remembered on this device.
E1
56 min 1. Citizen
After escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass becomes a pivotal voice calling for citizenship for Black Americans, a dream realized in the 14th Amendment.
E2
57 min 2. Resistance
After ratification, violent atrocities, court rulings and the Lost Cause ideology systematically subvert the 14th Amendment's promises of equality.
E3
58 min 3. Wait
As the civil rights movement gains momentum in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. orchestrates protests that goad President John F. Kennedy into action.
E4
62 min 4. Control
In the 1970s, women appeal to evolving interpretations of the 14th Amendment in their fight to achieve equality and control their own destinies.
E5
57 min 5. Love
After decades of setbacks, the struggle for same-sex marriage equality culminates in an Ohio couple's case taken up by the Supreme Court in 2015.
E6
60 min 6. Promise
Immigrants have long put their hope in America, but intolerant policies, racism and shocking violence have frequently trampled their dreams.
Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment.
Genres: Documentary, News, War & Politics
Stars: Will Smith, Bryan Stevenson
TV
Turning Point: The Vietnam War
2025
TV
Churchill at War
2024
TV
World War II: From the Frontlines
2023
TV
WWII in Color: Road to Victory
2021
TV
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror
2021
TV
How to Become a Tyrant
2021
TV
Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan
2021
TV
Spycraft
2021
TV
Grant
2020
TV
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
2020
TV
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
2019
TV
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
2018