American Experience

  • Premiered: Oct 1988
  • Episodes: 481
  • Followers: 72
  • Running
  • PBS
  • Tuesday at 21
  • Documentary History

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Season 34
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The American Diplomat
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 15, 2022
The American Diplomat explores the lives and legacies of three African-American ambassadors — Edward R. Dudley, Terence Todman and Carl Rowan — who pushed past historical and .. show full overview
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Flood in the Desert
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Air date
May 03, 2022
Explore the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured .. show full overview
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Plague at the Golden Gate
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Air date
May 24, 2022
More than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor.
34x5
Taken Hostage - Part 1
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 14, 2022
Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, through stories of those whose ordeal riveted the world.
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Taken Hostage - Part 2
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 15, 2022
Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, through stories of those whose ordeal riveted the world.

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