List of American Experience episodes

A list of episodes from the PBS 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 3.6 Native Americans 4 Technology 4.1 American Business/Labor 4.2 Aviation/Space 4.3 History of Health and 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 Western Biographies 5.6 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 Frontline co-production 8 Miscellaneous 9 External links

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 Debo
• Dolley Madison
• Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage, October 27, 1993 (Season 6, Episode 3) – Amelia Earhart at the Internet Movie Database – Amelia Earhart
• Robert E. Lee Video Online(PBS AE) Airdate: 1/4/2011
• U. S. Grant January 2011
• Seabiscuit -- Full Video Online

War and Politics

Politics

• Chicago 1968 – 1968 Democratic National Convention

Daley - America's Last Boss

World War II

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

The Cold War

• The Berlin Airlift

Civil Rights

• A Class Apart – From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who took Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-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.

Technology

American Business/Labor

• Tupperware
• Mr. Sears Catalogue
• Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World

Aviation/Space

• Race to the Moon

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 Dimes in the 1930s and culminating in the creation of the vaccine by Dr. Jonas Salk in the 1950s.

Innovations

• Edison's Miracle of Light
• The Great Transatlantic Cable
• Streamliners: America's Lost Trains

The American Landscape

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

The Environment

• Hoover Dam

Westward Expansion

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

Western Biographies

• Wyatt Earp
• Jesse James
• Kit Carson
• Buffalo Bill
• Annie Oakley

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 Uprising — About the Stonewall riots, the flashpoint of the modern gay liberation movement.

Popular culture

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.

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 White by wealthy heir Harry Thaw over singer/model Evelyn Nesbit

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 American lawyers who took Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-style discrimination. Aired February 23, 2009.

Spiritualism

• Sister Aimee

Sports

• The Fight – story of the boxing match and rematch between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling
• Roberto Clemente

Frontline co-production

• God in America 400-year history of religion and public life, including American exceptionalism and politics, in the United States of America.

Miscellaneous

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

External links

• American Experience home page
• List of American Experience episodes at the Internet Movie Database

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