American Experience

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

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Season 21
21x1
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Air date
Jan 26, 2009
The career of America's most famous and controversial nuclear physicist and his fall from grace during the Cold War.
21x2
The Polio Crusade
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Air date
Feb 02, 2009
The human story behind the massive American effort to eliminate the debilitating effects of the polio virus and the truly untested nature of Salk's original vaccine.
21x3
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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Air date
Feb 09, 2009
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Over the next twelve days, as a fractured nation mourned, the largest manhunt ever attempted .. show full overview
21x4
A Class Apart
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Feb 23, 2009
A 1951 murder by a Mexican-American laborer brings into question the legal status of Hispanics in the United States.
21x5
We Shall Remain (1): After the Mayflower
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Apr 13, 2009
A chronicle of the early relations and negotiations between the tribes of what became known as New England and the European settlers.
21x6
We Shall Remain (2): Tecumseh's Vision
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Apr 20, 2009
The story of a great Native American alliance to counter the 1800s US westward expansion from the Atlantic coast.
21x7
We Shall Remain (3): Trail of Tears
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Air date
Apr 27, 2009
Perspectives on the forced move of the Cherokee from the southeast to the newly established "Indian Territory" of what is now Oklahoma
21x8
We Shall Remain (4): Geronimo
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May 04, 2009
A portrait of the Chiracahua Apache who was one of the last Native Americans to continue armed resistance in North America.
21x9
We Shall Remain (5): Wounded Knee
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May 11, 2009
Rebellious Lakota and allies take up arms in 1973 and force an examination of the failures of the reservation system in the United States.
21x10
The Crash of 1929
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Air date
Oct 26, 2009
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich.
21x11 Season finale
Surviving the Dust Bowl
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Air date
Nov 16, 2009
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.

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