American Experience

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

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Season 11
11x1
America 1900 (1): Spirit of the Age
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 18, 1998
An overview of life in the United States at the dawn of the 20th century − unforeseen opportunities and unplanned-for challenges.
11x1
America 1900
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 18, 1998
America in 1900 is explored. Examined are "emblematic events of the year," says producer David Grubin, including the mine disaster in Scofield, Utah; the rebellion in the Philippines .. show full overview
11x2
America 1900 (2): Change Is in the Air
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 18, 1998
An overview of life in the United States at the dawn of the 20th century − unforeseen opportunities and unplanned-for challenges.
11x4
America 1900 (3): A Great Civilized Power
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Air date
Nov 25, 1998
An overview of life in the United States at the dawn of the 20th century − unforeseen opportunities and unplanned-for challenges.
11x5
America 1900 (4): Anything Seemed Possible
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 25, 1998
An overview of life in the United States at the dawn of the 20th century − unforeseen opportunities and unplanned-for challenges.
11x6
Race for the Super Bomb
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Air date
Jan 11, 1999
The United States and the Soviet Union work on weapons even more powerful than the earlier atomic bomb during the height of the Cold War.
11x7
Hoover Dam
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Air date
Jan 18, 1999
The story behind building one of the greatest Depression-era projects, the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.
11x8
Alone on the Ice
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Feb 08, 1999
An account of Robert Byrd's adventures at the poles and his trials in Antarctica.
11x9
Rescue at Sea
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Feb 15, 1999
The collision of two large ocean-going vessels in 1909 puts the new wireless telegraph to the test.
11x10
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
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Feb 22, 1999
An account of the causes of the partial core meltdown at the Pennsylvania nuclear power plant in 1979 and the reactions of staff and the public.
11x11
Lost in the Grand Canyon
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Air date
Apr 05, 1999
Geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell undertakes a dangerous water trip down the Colorado River with a crew of adventure-seekers.
11x12
MacArthur (1): Destiny
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Air date
May 17, 1999
Part 1 of a two-part biography of Douglas MacArthur takes "America's first soldier" from his brilliant WWI service into WWII, when his knack for alienating superiors hindered his "return" to the Philippines.
11x13
MacArthur (2): The Politics of War
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Air date
May 18, 1999
The conclusion of MacArthur focuses on his "return" to the Philippines in 1944, his years as Supreme Allied Commander in Japan after the war and his controversial command in Korea.
11x14 Season finale
Fly Girls
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Air date
May 24, 1999
The lives of the Women Air Service Pilots (WASPs) and their flying exploits within the US during World War II.

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