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The two-hour film debuts at 8 p.m. Sunday on The History Channel. Filmmaker Tom Jennings draws on "American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies," a 2004 book by Michael W. Kauffman.
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There have been complaints of misleading information in some programs; a special on the history of torture may have provided a misleading account of Perillos of Athens and his torture device, the Brazen Bull. Fact-checking has ... been faulted; in American Vesuvius incorrect information may have been given on temperature scales. In addition, the History Channel has been reproved for giving too much attention to arguably non-historical subjects, such as UFOs.[8] However, the network's Ice Road Truckers series garnered record ratings despite its debatably non-historical nature.[9]
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Dubin earned a Master of Arts degree in film from American University in Washington, D.C., and a BA in History from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. He currently resides in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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The Scorsese documentary will address the meaning and history of both the concept of "liberty," as it's played out in American history, and of the Statue itself. Through stills, archival images, commentary and interviews with historians, philosophers and legal scholars, Scorsese intends to reconnect the Statue to its original meaning, the celebration of the end of
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