PBS America (Freeview) Sunday

The summer of 1864, when public opinion turned against the conflict before Union victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley tilted the election to Lincoln

The period following Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration in March 1865, when Petersburg and Richmond fall to General Ulysses S Grant's army

As news of the surrender of the Confederate forces spreads, actor and Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth sought revenge for the South by assassinating President Lincoln

A look at how fascists fled to Madrid in 1944 to escape the Allied forces and wove their own secret web known as ratlines to help Nazis escape to South America or the Middle East

An examination of dictator Francisco Franco's reign, beginning with a look at his rise to power after launching a coup in 1936 that led to the Spanish Civil War

A look at the first period of Franco's regime, when he gave himself the title of Supreme Leader of Spain and his family moved into the former summer residence of the king

A look at how Franco managed to prevail as dictator after the end of the Second World War, with the Allies making a clear distinction between the friends and foes of democracy

A look at how Franco's rule was legitimised by Spain's economic upturn, but new influences entering the country confronted the regime with new challenges