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Die Hochzeitspläne eines Paares werden aus der Bahn geworfen, wenn beim Bräutigam Leberkrebs diagnostiziert wird.

Go beyond the legend and meet the inspiring woman who repeatedly risked her own life and freedom to liberate others from slavery. Born 200 years ago in Maryland, Harriet Tubman was a conductor of the Underground Railroad, a Civil War scout, nurse and spy, and one of the greatest freedom fighters in our nation's history.

Sometimes reduced to the image of a cursed artist, Amedeo Modigliani, an admirer of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, has traced an unparalleled path in modern art.

Texas has long been a place of contentious borders and cross-cultural exchange. Six national flags have flown over Texas since the 1500s, starting with European contests for the land that followed 10,000 years of Native American history there. From Spanish missions, to a French shipwreck, to a former sugarcane plantation, historians visit to ask: How did Texas become Texas?

Degas, one of the leaders of the uncompromising Impressionists, chose in 1877 a daring genre scene, close to the photographic snapshot. What he shows us are prostitutes on the terrace of a café on the Grands Boulevards, one of whom is tapping her fingernail against her tooth, seemingly saying "not just that" about a customer's lack of generosity. Zola's naturalism here joins the theme of urban life, a major theme examined by all the Impressionists. In any case, the painting is miles away from the neoclassicism in vogue at the time, at the (claimed) risk of disconcerting the bourgeois.

What does "freedom" mean to those outside the halls of power - and what did it mean during the American Revolution? Host Edward Ayers visits sites in Boston and Philadelphia to put that question to curators, museum educators, a playwright, and a tribal preservation officer. He learns about the ways in which women, Native Americans, and African Americans made the words of the Revolution come true in their own lives.

The team helps Lillian Lambert - the first African-American woman to receive an MBA from Harvard Business School - pack up her prized possessions for a move to a smaller home, and discovers news of her family's roots in the process.

Susan explores the Trossachs and west of Scotland, starting at the Castle of Inveraray. At Loch Katrine she sees a world-class feat of Scottish engineering and in Inverawe, discovers the secrets to Scotland's world-famous smoked salmon.

Professor Alice Roberts examines the facts surrounding death of King George IV.

Professor Alice Roberts explores the death of Mary I.

An explanation by various astronomers and religion historians of what the star of Bethlehem really was based on available evidence.