List of American Experience episodes
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A list of episodes from the PBS
documentary series American Experience
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Daley - America's Last Boss
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American Experience
American Experience is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service Public television stations in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history...
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The Presidents
- John and Abigail Adams
- Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln -- Full film online
- Ulysses S. Grant
- TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
- Woodrow Wilson
- FDR -- Full film online
- Truman -- Full film online
- The Kennedys -- Full film online
- LBJ -- Full film online
- Nixon -- Full film online
- Jimmy Carter -- Full film online
- Reagan -- Full film online
- George H.W. Bush -- Full film online
- Clinton- coming on January 1st, 2012
Biographies
- Citizen King – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- MacArthur – General Douglas MacArthur
- The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
- The Rockefellers
- Secrets of a Master Builder – James Eads and the Mississippi
- Alexander Hamilton
- The Sins of Our Mothers – Emeline Gurney
- Roberto Clemente
- Walt Whitman
- Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo – Angie DeboAngie DeboAngie Elbertha Debo was an American historian who wrote 13 books and hundreds of articles about Native American and Oklahoma history...
- Dolley Madison
- Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage, October 27, 1993 (Season 6, Episode 3) – – Amelia EarhartAmelia EarhartAmelia Mary Earhart was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean...
- Robert E. LeeRobert E. LeeRobert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War....
Video Online(PBS AE) Airdate: 1/4/2011 - U. S. Grant January 2011
- Seabiscuit -- Full Video Online
Politics
- Chicago 1968 – 1968 Democratic National Convention
Daley - America's Last Boss
World War II
Civil Rights
- A Class Apart – From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican AmericanMexican AmericanMexican Americans are Americans of Mexican descent. As of July 2009, Mexican Americans make up 10.3% of the United States' population with over 31,689,000 Americans listed as of Mexican ancestry. Mexican Americans comprise 66% of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States...
lawyers who took Hernandez v. TexasHernandez v. TexasHernandez v. Texas, 347 U.S. 475 , was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution....
to the Supreme CourtSupreme Court of the United StatesThe Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...
, challenging Jim CrowJim Crow lawsThe Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans...
-style discrimination. Aired February 23, 2009. - Marcus Garvey: Look For Me In the Whirlwind
- Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
- Emmett Till
- Malcolm X: Make It Plain
- Eyes On the Prize – the story of the Civil Rights movement from 1950 through 1980
- Simple Justice – 1993, Dramatization of the struggle of Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall to achieve racial justice, based on the book of the same title by Richard Kluger.
- Freedom Riders
Military Technology
- The Living Weapon – History of biological weapons program in United States.
- Race for the Superbomb
Native Americans
We Shall Remain – A five part History of Native Americans and their resistance to European and American expansion.American Business/Labor
- Tupperware
- Mr. Sears Catalogue
- Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World
History of Health and Medicine
- The Boy in the Bubble
- Test Tube Babies
- The Great Fever – the search for the transmitter of Yellow Fever, and Walter Reed's contribution to that effort
- Influenza 1918 – looks at one of the worst epidemics in American history.
- The Lobotomist – The story of Dr. Walter Freeman who championed the use of lobotomies on the mentally ill.
- The Polio Crusade – The impact of polio and the campaign to conquer it beginning with the March of DimesMarch of DimesThe March of Dimes Foundation is a United States nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies.-Organization:...
in the 1930s and culminating in the creation of the vaccine by Dr. Jonas SalkJonas SalkJonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. He was born in New York City to parents from Ashkenazi Jewish Russian immigrant families...
in the 1950s.
Innovations
Cities
- Chicago:City of the Century
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Grand Central
- Las Vegas: An Unconventional History
- Mr. Miami Beach
- New Orleans
- New York Underground
- New York: A Documentary Film
- New York: The Center of the World – Postwar New York—told through the story of the rise and fall of the World Trade Center.
Natural Disasters
- Fatal Flood – focuses on 1927 Mississippi river flood
- Hurricane of '38 – focuses on 1938 Hurricane through the Northeastern states
Westward Expansion
Western Biographies
Turning Points
- America 1900 – Tells the story of the United States at the turn of century in 1900.
- The 1930s – A collection of films that explores America in the 1930s.
- Stonewall UprisingStonewall UprisingStonewall Uprising is a 2010 American documentary film examining the events surrounding the Stonewall riots that began during the early hours of June 28, 1969. Stonewall Uprising made its theatrical debut on June 16, 2010 at the Film Forum in New York City...
— About the Stonewall riotsStonewall riotsThe Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City...
, the flashpoint of the modern gay liberationGay LiberationGay liberation is the name used to describe the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement of the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s in North America, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand...
movement.
Arts and Entertainment
- Ansel Adams
- Barnum's Big Top
- The Battle Over Citizen Kane
- Big Dream Small Screen
- The Carter Family – Discusses the successes and failures of A.P. Carter and his singing partners during the Great DepressionGreat DepressionThe Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...
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- Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo
- Eugene O'Neill
- Houdini
- Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
- Mary Pickford
- Mount Rushmore
- Patriot's Day
- Miss America
- The Quiz Show Scandal
- Steven Foster
- Sister Aimee
- Summer of Love – Centers on San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district and the hippieHippieThe hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's...
movement during the summer of 1967.
Crime and Punishment
- Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
- Jonestown: Life and Death of Peoples Temple
- The Massie AffairThe Story of racial tensions over a rape trial in 1930s Hawaii
- Murder of the Century — Concerns the 1906 murder of architect Stanford WhiteStanford WhiteStanford White was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found...
by wealthy heir Harry Thaw over singer/model Evelyn NesbitEvelyn NesbitEvelyn Nesbit was an American artists' model and chorus girl, noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover, architect Stanford White, by her first husband, Harry Kendall Thaw.-Early life:...
The Great Depression
- Seabiscuit
- Riding The Rails
- The Civilian Conservation Corps
- The Crash of 1929
- Hoover Dam
- Surviving the Dust Bowl
Immigrant Experience
- A Class Apart – From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican AmericanMexican AmericanMexican Americans are Americans of Mexican descent. As of July 2009, Mexican Americans make up 10.3% of the United States' population with over 31,689,000 Americans listed as of Mexican ancestry. Mexican Americans comprise 66% of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States...
lawyers who took Hernandez v. TexasHernandez v. TexasHernandez v. Texas, 347 U.S. 475 , was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution....
to the Supreme CourtSupreme Court of the United StatesThe Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...
, challenging Jim CrowJim Crow lawsThe Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans...
-style discrimination. Aired February 23, 2009.
Sports
- The Fight – story of the boxing match and rematch between Joe LouisJoe LouisJoseph Louis Barrow , better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. He is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time...
and Max SchmelingMax SchmelingMaximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing, and became worldwide social events because of their national associations... - Roberto Clemente
Frontline co-production
- God in America 400-year history of religion and public life, including American exceptionalismAmerican exceptionalismAmerican exceptionalism refers to the theory that the United States is qualitatively different from other countries. In this view, America's exceptionalism stems from its emergence from a revolution, becoming "the first new nation," and developing a uniquely American ideology, based on liberty,...
and politics, in the United States of America.
Miscellaneous
- Hijacked – Tells the story of the 1970 PFLP hijackingDawson's Field hijackingsIn the Dawson's Field hijackings five jet aircraft bound for New York City were hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
, and subsequent destruction, of four commercial airliners.