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WVPT’s historical documentaries present the legacy of Virginia.  Each features historic sites, unique culture and notable people of the Commonwealth.  And each is a production of WVPT—Virginia’s Public Television.  DVD and VHS copies of these programs are available for your home library.  (VHS tapes are available while supplies last.) Shipping is a flat rate of $2.00 per order. If you are interested in purchasing ten or more documentaries please call (540)434-5391 for bulk pricing.

(Aug. 2000)
Running Time: 60 minutes

Local professional and amateur actors play out the story of the Bushong family and Virginia Military Institute cadets caught up in the May 15, 1864 Civil War Battle of New Market.

(Mar. 1999)
Running Time: 60 minutes

Residents and local historians share their photographs and their memories to help paint a portrait of Harrisonburg from the 1920s to the present.

(Mar. 2000)
Running Time: 60 minutes

LIV travels to Lexington and explores the tight-knit community and its almost mystical Southern graces of hospitality, warmth and congeniality.

(Jun. 2004)
Running Time: 60 minutes

The documentary examines the Conscientious Objector (CO) movement from the Civil War through World War II. 

(Mar. 2000)
Running Time: 30 minutes

During the Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt hired 6500 "boys" from Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania to build this country's first national park.

(Sept. 1998)
Running Time: 30 minutes

In order for the Shenandoah National Park to be created, nearly 600 families had to move from their mountain homes. LIV follows their stories.

(May 1999)
Running Time: 30 minutes

As students (Rats) enter Virginia Military Institute (VMI) -- the nation's first state-supported military college -- they must adjust to the physical and psychological challenges designed to test their stamina, courage, and resolve.

(Mar. 2000)
Running Time: 30 minutes

Arising from the dust of Indian ponies, wagon wheels, and SUVs, Route 11 emerges as more than merely a highway. Route 11 carries a story that predates the arrival of European settlers.

(Jun. 2001)
Running Time: 30 minutes

The LIV production team explores Mennonite culture, history and different branches of the "Mennonite Tree" found in the Shenandoah Valley.

(Dec. 2000)
Running Time: 60 minutes

Long-time Winchester residents, leaders, and historians, proud of their heritage, describe the city's contributions in the apple-harvesting, clock-making, iron-working and milling industries.

(Dec. 1996)
Running Time: 30 minutes

This special examines post World War I Charlottesville to 1996 as residents talk of their history first-hand.

(Mar. 1997)
Running Time: 60 minutes

Residents and railroad employees describe their deep connection with and daily dependence upon the railroad.

(Mar. 1998)
Running Time: 60 minutes

This special is a look at Staunton during the first half of the twentieth century. Places featured include: Mary Baldwin College, The Wharf District, Staunton Military Academy, Gypsy Hill Park, Western State Hospital, and the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind.

(Dec. 1997)
Running Time: 60 minutes

Based on the life of the Hamner family, "The Waltons" first aired on commercial television 25 years ago and grew to be a hit. This special visits with the Hamner brothers and sisters, the stars of "The Waltons," and the residents of Schuyler.

(May 2002)
Running Time: 60 minutes

Producer Morgan Hook examines the country's oldest hiking path, the men who created it, and those who walk it.  Hook talks with Darwin Lambert, Shenandoah National Park's first employee, who remembers the two men credited with the Trail’s creation – Benton MacKaye and Myron Avery.

(Oct. 2007)
Running Time: 60 minutes

Illegal immigration to the United States has skyrocketed in recent years.

Why do immigrants cross the border illegally? What effect does immigration have nationally and locally? VIRGINIA REPORTS “The Latino Underground” examines this emotional issue.