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Episodes
- The Presidents: The Conventions | American Experience
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Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:00:00 EDT
NPR news analyst Daniel Schorr and American University historian Allan Lichtman discuss the role of the party conventions in 2008. - The Presidents: The Democratic Party and Expanding Opportunity | American Experience (13mb)
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT
Harvard University sociologist Orlando Patterson places Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign in the context of Democratic Party history. - Riding the Rails | American Experience (5mb)
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:00:00 EDT
At the height of the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America. - The Presidents: American Conservativism | American Experience (11mb)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:00:00 EDT
Historian Dan Carter places John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign in the context of the American conservative movement. - The Presidents: The Economy | American Experience (10mb)
Thu, 29 May 2008 17:00:00 EDT
MIT historian Meg Jacobs examines the impact of economic issues during election years. - Truman | American Experience (7mb)
Thu, 22 May 2008 17:00:00 EDT
After eighty-two days as Vice-President, Harry Truman became the thirty-third President of the United States. - FDR | American Experience (5mb)
Thu, 8 May 2008 17:00:00 EDT
In March 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office and gave hope to a nation in crisis. - The Presidents: First Ladies | American Experience (9mb)
Fri, 2 May 2008 14:00:00 EDT
John Jay College historian Blanche Wiesen Cook looks back at Eleanor Roosevelt and discusses the role of the First Lady. - George H.W. Bush: At Kennebunkport | American Experience (6mb)
Fri, 2 May 2008 14:00:00 EDT
Filmmakers Austin Hoyt and Callie Taintor Wiser discuss the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. - Roberto Clemente: Filmmaker Interview | American Experience (7mb)
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:00:00 EDT
Filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz discusses his biography of baseball's first Latino superstar. - Roberto Clemente: Legacy | American Experience (6mb)
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:00:00 EDT
New York Yankees pitcher LaTroy Hawkins discusses the legacy of Roberto Clemente. - Walt Whitman | American Experience (6mb)
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT
Contemporary writers and poets read excerpts from Walt Whitman's signature work, Leaves of Grass. - The Presidents: Foreign Policy Leadership | American Experience (14mb)
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:00:00 EST
International relations professor Ernest May from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and history professor Kristin Hoganson from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign describe foreign policy, presidential leadership, and elections. - Minik, The Lost Eskimo | American Experience (3mb)
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:40:00 EST
When Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned from Greenland in 1897, he brought with him a seven-year-old boy named Minik. - Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film | American Experience (4mb)
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:20:00 EST
From the day that a 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra." Nature and wilderness photographer Michael Frye describes following in Adams' footsteps, working in Yosemite. - The Presidents: Critical Elections | American Experience (8mb)
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST
Georgetown University historian Michael Kazin looks back at the 1968 presidential campaign and discusses the theory of "critical elections." - The Fight | American Experience (4mb)
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST
In the 1930s, Joe Louis crossed boxing's color line to become the most famous and influential black person in America. - Buffalo Bill | American Experience (7mb)
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST
As the American frontier was disappearing, William Cody transformed himself into a master showman named Buffalo Bill. - Kit Carson | American Experience (10mb)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:10:00 EST
The legendary trapper, scout and soldier was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages. When the West was a mystery to most Americans, Kit Carson mastered it. - The Presidents: Campaigning and the Primary System | American Experience (19mb)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST
Boston University historian Bruce Schulman, author of The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics, looks back at the 1976 presidential campaign and finds parallels to the 2008 campaign. - The Lobotomist | American Experience (8mb)
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 8:00:00 EST
Walter J. Freeman was an ambitious neurologist that invented a radical surgery to combat mental illness: the transorbital lobotomy. A patient of Doctor Freeman and families of lobotomy recipients describe how the procedure changed their lives. - Oswald's Ghost | American Experience (9mb)
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 8:45:00 EST
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 left a psychic wound on America that is with us still today. Filmmaker Robert Stone discusses his deconstruction of the assassination and how this single event forever changed the face of American culture. - Grand Central Preview | American Experience (24mb)
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 4:45:00 EST
Executive producer Mark Samels and filmmaker Michael Epstein discuss an upcoming American Experience film on New York's Grand Central Station. - Daughter from Danang | American Experience (6mb)
Fri, 2 Nov 2007 3:45:00 EST
In 1975, the U.S. sponsored Operation Babylift, evacuating war orphans from Vietnam. Author Aimee Phan talks about the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE program DAUGHTER FROM DANANG, which tells the story of a Babylift evacuee's troubled reunion with her Vietnamese birth mother. - The Black Lions Remember Vietnam | American Experience (8mb)
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 2:25:00 EST
Meet the men of the Black Lions battalion. Forty years ago, they walked into a Viet Cong ambush. - The Space Race | American Experience (8mb)
Thu, 04 Oct 2007 3:45:00 EST
On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik. Roger Launius, curator at the National Air and Space Museum, describes Sputnik's impact on the Space Race. - World War II Memories | American Experience (5mb)
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:10:00 EST
World War II veterans describe the brutal conditions and deadly combat faced on the battlefronts of Europe and the Pacific. - Chicago: City of the Century | American Experience (7mb)
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:35:00 EST
In the mid nineteenth century Chicago emerged as an industrial metropolis, fueled by a diverse work force. Historian Dominic Pacyga describes Chicago's prominence in the national labor movement and its reaction to the Labor Day holiday. Their organized efforts were emblematic of a growing national labor movement that was marked by century's end with a new national holiday: Labor Day. - Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life | American Experience (7mb)
Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:00:00 EST
Former Commissioner of Major League Baseball Fay Vincent talks about one of the greatest sports heroes ever. Joe DiMaggio joined the New York Yankees in 1936 and quickly rose to become the star of baseball's golden age. - Summer of Love | American Experience (5mb)
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:00:00 EST
In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people from across the country flocked to San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district to join in the hippie experience, only to discover that what they had come for was already disappearing. - Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple | American Experience (5mb)
Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:00:00 EST
In tape recordings from the 1970s, Jim Jones describes his church, the Peoples Temple. - New Orleans | American Experience (7mb)
Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:30:00 EST
Filmmaker Stephen Ives details the challenges of making a documentary about New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. - The Living Weapon | American Experience (11mb)
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:30:00 EST
In early 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt received an alarming intelligence report: Germany and Japan were developing biological weapons for potential offensive use. In response, the U.S. and its allies rushed to develop their own germ warfare program. - The Berlin Airlift | American Experience (7mb)
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:30:00 EST
A veteran pilot describes his experiences during the first battle of the Cold War and the largest humanitarian campaign the world had ever seen. - The Gold Rush | American Experience (8mb)
Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:30:00 EST
Filmmaker Randall MacLowry brings to life the story of The Gold Rush in this American Experience film. - The Great Fever | American Experience (16mb)
Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:30:00 EST
Three physicians discuss the past and future of yellow fever, a disease that terrorized the United States for more than two hundred years, killing an estimated 100,000 in the nineteenth century alone. - Eyes on the Prize | American Experience (16mb)
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:30:00 EST
Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life. - The Center Of The World: New York: A Documentary Film | American Experience (5mb)
Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:00:00 EST
Carol Willis, the director of New York's Skyscraper Museum, reflects on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, and plans for Ground Zero. - A preview of New Orleans | American Experience (6mb)
Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:00:00 EST
Filmmaker Stephen Ives spent a year making a PBS documentary on the history of a unique American city New Orleans. - Hoover Dam | American Experience (4mb)
Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:00:00 EST
Rising more than 700 feet above the raging waters of the Colorado River, it was called one of the greatest engineering works in history. - Mount Rushmore | American Experience (7mb)
Wed, 2 Aug 2006 19:30:00 EST
Meet the daring workers and the temperamental artist who created the world's largest piece of sculpture, Mount Rushmore. - Coney Island | American Experience (5mb)
Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:30:00 EST
At the turn of the 20th century, a tiny spit of land at the foot of Brooklyn had become the most extravagant playground in America. - Fourth of July 1826 | American Experience (4mb)
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EST
Historians David McCullough and Joseph Ellis discuss the amazing circumstances surrounding the deaths of former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on July 4th, 1826. - Behind the Scenes: Season 18 viewer mail | American Experience (10mb)
Thu, 8 Jun 2006 18:00:00 EST
American Experience executive producer Mark Samels discusses viewer emails about two of the past season's most popular programs. - Behind the Scenes: The Man Behind Hitler | American Experience (25mb)
Thu, 18 May 2006 14:00:00 EST
American Experience executive producer Mark Samels and German filmmaker Michael Kloft discuss "The Man Behind Hitler," a new documentary based on the 7,000-page diary kept by Nazi Joseph Goebbels. - Golden Gate Bridge | American Experience (5mb)
Thu, 11 May 2006 15:00:00 EST
Workers and historians describe the construction of the world's longest suspension bridge above the dangerously churning waters at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. - Annie Oakley | American Experience (5mb)
Thu, 4 May 2006 21:00:00 EST
Annie Oakley thrilled audiences around the world with her daring shooting, a sport that was traditionally a male domain. - Remember the Alamo | American Experience (5mb)
Mon, 1 May 2006 16:00:00 EST
A conflict in Texas pitted brother against brother and devastated the community. - The Alaska Pipeline | American Experience (6mb)
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:00:00 EST
In the late 1960s, Native Alaskans sought a land claims settlement from Congress before work began on the Alaska Pipeline. - The Great San Francisco Earthquake | American Experience (9mb)
Fri, 14 Apr 2006 4:40:00 EST
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 remains a point of reference for earthquake science and building safety even today. - The Boy in the Bubble | American Experience (7mb)
Thu, 6 Apr 2006 19:00:00 EST
Carol Anne Vetter Demaret, the mother of a boy born with severe immunodeficiency who was placed in a protective bubble, talks about the events leading up to her son David's birth. - Eugene O'Neill | American Experience (6mb)
Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:00:00 EST
Actor Christopher Plummer brings Eugene O'Neill's words to life in a new documentary on O'Neill, America's greatest playwright. - Murder of the Century | American Experience (2mb)
Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:00:00 EST
In 1906 Harry Thaw murdered Stanford White over the beautiful showgirl Evelyn Nesbit. The gripping New York society scandal was reported "to the ends of the civilized globe." - A preview of American Experience's spring programs on PBS | American Experience (6mb)
Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:00:00 EST
Executive producer Mark Samels previews two new programs coming to American Experience this spring, Monday nights at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). - Hijacked | American Experience (3mb)
Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:00:00 EST
September 6, 1970 gave birth to a new era of terrorism. - Reconstruction: The Second Civil War: Plantations in Ruins | American Experience (5mb)
Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:00:00 EST
After the Civil War, North and South had to reconcile. And four million former slaves had to be brought into the life of the nation. Kate Stone of Louisiana and Fan Butler of Georgia were two young women who found their family plantations in ruins. - Reconstruction: The Second Civil War: Civil Rights | American Experience (4mb)
Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:00:00 EST
After the Civil War, North and South had to reconcile. And four million former slaves had to be brought into the life of the nation. John Roy Lynch, a former slave from Mississippi, was elected to Congress, where he challenged whites' deepest beliefs about race and class. - Jesse James | American Experience (3mb)
Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:00:00 EST
A Confederate partisan of expansive ambition, unbending politics and surprising cunning, Jesse James helped invent his own legend. - The Nuremberg Trials | American Experience (6mb)
Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:00:00 EST
At the end of World War II, the Allied victors tried Nazi war criminals for crimes against humanity. The trials set historic precedents for international law. - John and Abigail Adams | American Experience (3mb)
Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:00:00 EST
The letters of John and Abigail Adams provide us with an intimate account of the early days of the Republic. They also tell the story of a great American political and romantic partnership. - Eleanor Roosevelt | American Experience (5mb)
Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:00:00 EST
In July 1940 Eleanor Roosevelt makes a compelling speech and unites the party at the Democratic National Convention. - Reagan: Summit at Reykjavik | American Experience (5mb)
Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:00:00 EST
In October 1986 President Ronald Reagan met Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev for a summit at Reykjavik. While no agreement was made, the summit was a historical breakthrough. - Reagan: From Acting to Politics | American Experience (4mb)
Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:00:00 EST
In 1966, when Ronald Reagan ran for governor of California, his opponent derided his lack of experience and Hollywood background. - Behind the Scenes: Presidential Biographies | American Experience (23mb)
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:30:00 EST
American Experience executive producer Mark Samels and documentary filmmakers Elizabeth Deane and David Grubin discuss two of their presidential biographies, "John & Abigail Adams" and "LBJ." - Patriots Day | American Experience (3mb)
Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:30:00 EST
Every year the historic events of April 19, 1775 are reenacted by a committed band of historical actors. - The Fight: Behind the Scenes: Authors and Filmmakers | American Experience (7mb)
Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:30:00 EST
Book author David Margolick and documentary producer Barak Goodman discuss the process of working together on the same story. - Tupperware! | American Experience (3mb)
Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:30:00 EST
Bite-sized nuggets of positive thinking from two post-war success stories: Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware, and Brownie Wise, home party sales genius. - Influenza 1918 | American Experience (8mb)
Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:30:00 EST
A deadly flu invades North America -- killing over 600,000 people in the worst epidemic in American history. - Behind the Scenes: City Biographies | American Experience (23mb)
Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:00:00 EST
American Experience executive producer Mark Samels and documentary filmmakers Stephen Ives and Austin Hoyt discuss their work on city biographies of Las Vegas and Chicago. - Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: The Color Line | American Experience (4mb)
Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:00:00 EST
In the 1960s, Las Vegas was a segregated city. But the color line was about to turn green: the color of money. - Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Atomic City, U.S.A. | American Experience (4mb)
Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:00:00 EST
During the cold war, Las Vegas used nearby nuclear testing grounds as a tourist attraction. - Victory in the Pacific | American Experience (4mb)
Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:30:00 EST
In early 1945 Japan knows it cannot win World War II, but it will not surrender. The U.S. launches a major bombing campaign. - Race To The Moon | American Experience (4mb)
Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:00:00 EST
Apollo 8 was the first manned flight to the moon. The crew made many important visual observations, including mankind's first glance at the moon. - Kinsey | American Experience (4mb)
Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:00:00 EST
An Indiana University biology professor was an unlikely "revolutionary" in the field of human sexuality. - Viewer response to Two Days in October | American Experience (14mb)
Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:00:00 EST
Executive producer Mark Samels and filmmaker Robert Kenner discuss viewer emails regarding Two Days in October. - Two Days in October: Vietnam | American Experience (4mb)
Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:00:00 EST
The famed Black Lions of the Army's First Infantry Division are ambushed in the jungles of Vietnam. - Two Days in October: America | American Experience (4mb)
Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:00:00 EST
A peaceful student protest on the campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison descends into violence and brutality when town police are brought to intervene. - A preview of American Experience's fall TV season on PBS | American Experience (7mb)
Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:00:00 EST
Executive producer Mark Samels previews the upcoming season of American Experience on PBS. - The Carter Family: Will The Circle Be Unbroken | American Experience (4mb)
Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:00:00 EST
The story and music of the Carter Family: Sara, her husband A. P., and sister-in-law Maybelle. - Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst | American Experience (4mb)
Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:00:00 EST
The bizarre saga of heiress, kidnap victim, and sometime urban guerrilla Patricia Hearst. - Fatal Flood | American Experience (4mb)
Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:00:00 EST
A story of greed, power, and race during a terrible natural disaster.
