American Experience

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

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Season 18
18x1
Two Days in October
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 17, 2005
Discord in two different places - a withering ambush of US troops by the Viet Cong 40 miles west of Saigon and a student protest that turns violent at the University of Wisconsin.
18x2
Race to the Moon
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Air date
Oct 31, 2005
The Apollo 8 mission to orbit the moon and the men and women behind the effort.
18x3
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (1): Sin City
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Air date
Nov 14, 2005
The story of the circumstances that led to the founding of what would become a huge tourist destination in the desert.
18x4
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (2): American Mecca
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Air date
Nov 15, 2005
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18x5
John and Abigail Adams
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Air date
Jan 23, 2006
A chronicle of the lives of the couple and their mutual regard for each other's abilities and intelligence.
18x6
The Nuremberg Trials
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Air date
Jan 30, 2006
On November 20, 1945, the twenty-two surviving representatives of the Nazi elite stood before an international military tribunal at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. This .. show full overview
18x7
Jesse James
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Air date
Feb 06, 2006
An examination of the real details of the notorious outlaw and his brother.
18x8
Hijacked
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Air date
Feb 25, 2006
The motivations of the "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" and the airplane hijackings they carried out.
18x9
Eugene O'Neill
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Air date
Mar 21, 2006
The life of one of the 20th century's most acclaimed playwrights.
18x10
The Boy in the Bubble
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Apr 10, 2006
Account of David Vetter, a boy with an immune system so compromised that he led a life of isolation in a sealed enclosure.
18x11
The Alaska Pipeline
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Air date
Apr 24, 2006
The engineering behind the challenging work of transporting oil during the height of the energy crisis and the subsequent environmental impact of the pipeline.
18x12
Annie Oakley
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Air date
May 08, 2006
Chronicle of the amazing markswoman, her life, the discovery of her talent, and the promotion of her career.
18x13 Season finale
The Man Behind Hitler
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Air date
May 22, 2006
Documentary on Joseph Goebbels and the propaganda behind the success of the Nazi regime - told mainly though his own diaries and speeches.

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