List of American Experience episodes

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A list of episodes from the Public Broadcasting Service documentary series American Experience.

Contents 1 The Presidents 2 Biographies 3 War and Politics 3.1 Politics 3.2 World War II 3.3 The Cold War 3.4 Civil Rights 3.5 Military Technology 4 Technology 4.1 American Business/Labor 4.2 Aviation/Space 4.3 History of Medicine 4.4 Innovations 5 The American Landscape 5.1 Cities 5.2 Natural Disasters 5.3 The Environment 5.4 Westward Expansion 5.5 Turning Points 6 Popular Culture 6.1 Arts and Entertainment 6.2 Crime and Punishment 6.3 The Great Depression 6.4 Immigrant Experience 6.5 Spiritualism 6.6 Sports 7 Miscellaneous 8 External links

[edit] The Presidents

• John and Abigail Adams
• Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
• Ulysses S. Grant
• TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson
• FDR
• Truman
• The Kennedys
• LBJ
• Nixon
• Jimmy Carter
• Reagan
• George H.W. Bush

[edit] Biographies

• Citizen King – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• 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

[edit] War and Politics

[edit] Politics

• Chicago 1968 – 1968 Democratic National Convention

[edit] World War II

• Bataan Rescue
• D-day
• Battle of the Bulge
• America and the Holocaust

[edit] The Cold War

• The Berlin Airlift

[edit] Civil Rights

• 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

[edit] Military Technology

• The Living Weapon – History of biological weapons program in United States.
• Race for the Superbomb

[edit] Technology

[edit] American Business/Labor

• Tupperware

[edit] Aviation/Space

• Race to the Moon

[edit] History of 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

[edit] Innovations

• Edison's Miracle of Light
• The Great Transatlantic Cable

[edit] The American Landscape

[edit] Cities

• Chicago:City of the Century
• Golden Gate Bridge
• 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.

[edit] Natural Disasters

• Fatal Flood – focuses on 1927 Mississippi river flood
• Hurricane of '38 – focuses on 1938 Hurricane through the Northeastern states

[edit] The Environment

• Hoover Dam

[edit] Westward Expansion

• Remember the Alamo
• Gold Rush
• Transcontinental Railroad
• The Iron Road
• The Donner Party

[edit] Turning Points

• America 1900 - Tells the story of the United States at the turn of century in 1900.

[edit] Popular Culture

[edit] 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 Depression.
• Coney Island
• 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 hippie movement during the summer of 1967.

[edit] Crime and Punishment

• Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
• Jonestown: Life and Death of Peoples Temple
• The Massie Affair
• Murder of the Century — Concerns the 1906 murder of architect Stanford White by wealthy heir Harry Thaw over singer/model Evelyn Nesbit

[edit] The Great Depression

• Seabiscuit

[edit] Immigrant Experience

[edit] Spiritualism

[edit] Sports

• The Fight - story of the boxing match and rematch between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Hijacked - Tells the story of the 1970 PFLP hijacking, and subsequent destruction, of four commercial airliners.

[edit] External links

• American Experience home page
• Episode list at IMDB.com