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 The Cold War 3.3 War/Military 4 Technology 4.1 American Business/Labor 4.2 Aviation 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 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

• Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
• Jimmy Carter
• The Kennedys
• Reagan
• TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
• Truman
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Woodrow Wilson

[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

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

[edit] Politics

• Chicago 1968 – 1968 Democratic National Convention

[edit] The Cold War

[edit] War/Military

[edit] Technology

• Edison's Miracle of Light
• The Living Weapon – History of biological weapons program in United States.
• Tupperware
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Hoover Dam
• The Iron Road
• Race for the Superbomb
• The Great Transatlantic Cable

[edit] American Business/Labor

[edit] Aviation

[edit] History of Medicine

[edit] Innovations

[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

[edit] The Environment

[edit] Westward Expansion

[edit] Popular Culture

[edit] Arts and Entertainment

• Ansel Adams
• 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
• Eugene O'Neill
• Houdini
• Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
• Mary Pickford
• 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

[edit] Immigrant Experience

[edit] Spiritualism

[edit] Sports

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Fatal Flood – focuses on 1927 Mississippi river flood
• The Berlin Airlift
• 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