American Experience

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

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Season 3
3x1
Lindbergh
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 01, 1990
After his famous flight, Charles Lindbergh becomes known to all the world but struggles with life in the limelight.
3x2
Nixon (1): The Quest
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 15, 1990
Chronicle of the 37th President - from his earliest ambitions to his innovative foreign policy and paranoia of perceived rivals.
3x3
Nixon (2): Triumph
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 15, 1990
Chronicle of the 37th President - from his earliest ambitions to his innovative foreign policy and paranoia of perceived rivals.
3x4
Nixon (3): The Fall
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 15, 1990
Chronicle of the 37th President - from his earliest ambitions to his innovative foreign policy and paranoia of perceived rivals.
3x5
God Bless America and Poland, Too
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 22, 1990
Episode focusing on Polish immigration in the 1910s and the contributions of Poles to the United States.
3x6
Insanity on Trial
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 29, 1990
The trial of Charles Guiteau, a seeming madman who killed President James Garfield.
3x7
The Satellite Sky
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 05, 1990
The story behind orbiting satellites, the "space race," and the proliferation and uses of man-made satellites.
3x8
The Crash of 1929
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 19, 1990
The unbounded optimism of the Jazz Age and the shocking consequences when reality finally hit on October 29th, ultimately leading to the Great Depression.
3x9
The Iron Road
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 26, 1990
America is spanned when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific join track and enable a railroad system that is truly transcontinental.
3x10
French Dance Tonight
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 10, 1990
The distinctive music of Louisiana including Cajun and Zydeco performances.
3x11
Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 17, 1990
Oil exploration and the fortunes and failures of the independent opportunists who searched for it.
3x12
After the Crash
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 07, 1991
After the stock market crashed in 1929, thousands suffered unemployment and poverty in the Great Depression. The most desperate year, 1932, brought World War I veterans' Bonus March, the election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the New Deal.
3x20 Season finale
G-Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 21, 1991
The evolution of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an instrument to battle serious interstate crime and the personal mission of its controversial leader.
3x13
Los Mineros
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 28, 1991
A story of Mexican-American workers in early 20th century copper mines in the southwest.
3x14
Coney Island
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 04, 1991
A history of the three major amusement parks that made Coney Island one of America's favorite recreational diversions in the early to mid 20th century and the ultimate fate of Coney Island.
3x14
Love in the Cold War
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 18, 1991
The story of Eugene Dennis and his wife Peggy, communist activists in the post-World War II era.

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