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1h 27m Thirty of DC’s finest musicians celebrate their heroes and display the virtuosic, genre-blending music championed by the late guitarists, Danny Gatton and Roy Buchanan. This blend of jazz, blues, country, swing, rock, and bluegrass is unique to the musical culture of DC — The Anacostia Delta. The film explores the universe of live music that permeated Washington, D.C. in the post-WWII era.

Discover the extraordinary life of poet, philosopher and music visionary Sun Ra. With his ever-evolving collective, the Sun Ra Arkestra, he self-produced more than 200 albums, stretching the boundaries of jazz. Discover the life of singer-songwriter Janis Ian and how she rose as a folk icon and gay rights advocate. She broke ground with “Society’s Child” (1966), a bold take on interracial love, and “At Seventeen” (1975), a searing anthem about bullying.

Co-founded by Filipina American and queer teenagers, Fanny is the first all women band to release an album with a major record label (Warner/Reprise, 1970). Revered by David Bowie, meet the most groundbreaking rock group you've never heard of... yet. PBS PASSPORT Stream tens of thousands of hours of your PBS and local favorites with WETA+ and PBS Passport whenever and wherever you want. Catch up on a single episode or binge-watch full seasons before they air on TV.

The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the rise of Disco music. The hostility came to a head on July 12, 1979, when a riot led by rock fans broke out at “Disco Demolition Night” during a baseball game in Chicago In August, 1969, half a million people from all walks of life and every corner of the country converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York. They came to hear the concert of their lives, but most experienced something far more profound.

History In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.

This 1856 painting by Junius Brutus Stearns depicts George Washington presiding over the Constitutional Convention. George Mason -- who was a very active participant in the convention but refused to sign the Constitution -- is not pictured. In May of 1787, fifty-five delegates from twelve of the thirteen states (minus Rhode Island) gathered in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

With the dawn of the Space Shuttle, the US gains ground on their Cold War rivals. A pioneering class of astronauts takes flight, but when tragedy strikes NASA are left reeling. PBS PASSPORT Stream tens of thousands of hours of your PBS and local favorites with WETA+ and PBS Passport whenever and wherever you want. Catch up on a single episode or binge-watch full seasons before they air on TV.

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Most of America (and the rest of the world too) knows Lafayette as the 19-year-old “Lancelot of the revolutionary set” who “came from afar just to say ‘Bonsoir!’” to King George III of England and help the patriots win their independence. America’s ultimate Founding Father, George Washington, took him under his wing; he was injured in the Battle of Brandywine; he returned from France with Rochambeau and the men needed to seal victory in the war at Yorktown.