American Experience

  • Premiered: Oct 1988
  • Episodes: 483
  • Followers: 74
  • Running
  • PBS
  • Tuesday at 21
  • Documentary History

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Season 10
10x1
Truman (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 05, 1997
Challenges and triumphs of an unassuming midwesterner who was thrust into the role of national leader.
10x2
Truman (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 06, 1997
Challenges and triumphs of an unassuming midwesterner who was thrust into the role of national leader.
10x11 Season finale
Truman (4)
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 06, 1997
Challenges and triumphs of an unassuming midwesterner who was thrust into the role of national leader.
10x3
Truman: Part Three
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 07, 1997
Challenges and triumphs of an unassuming midwesterner who was thrust into the role of national leader.
10x3
Truman (3)
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 07, 1997
Challenges and triumphs of an unassuming midwesterner who was thrust into the role of national leader.
10x4
A Midwife's Tale
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 19, 1998
The life of a midwife living in Maine during the late 18th century, based on the journals of Martha Ballard and the research of a modern-day author.
10x5
Mr. Miami Beach
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 02, 1998
Documentary of Carl Graham Fisher, an opportunist who saw potential for tourism in the swamp lands of Florida.
10x6
Influenza 1918
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 09, 1998
The worst epidemic in American history killed over 600,000 Americans during World War I. Nicknamed "Spanish influenza," it died out quickly the following winter.
10x7
Reagan (1): Lifeguard
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 23, 1998
When he left the White House in 1988, Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular presidents of the century - and one of the most controversial. A failed actor, Reagan became a passionate .. show full overview
10x8
Reagan (2): An American Crusade
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 24, 1998
An economic transformation in 1983 secured Reagan’s second term. The episode chronicles his last four years in office—from the loss of his closest advisors and the Iran-Contra scandal to the dawning of the fall of Communism in Europe.
10x9
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 02, 1998
The story of the farmers who came to the Southern Plains of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas dreaming of prosperity, and lived through ten years of drought, dust, disease and death.
10x10
Riding the Rails
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 13, 1998
The subculture of young hobos that sprang up during the Great Depression.

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