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Dolley Madison
Original Air Date: 3/1/10 |
Season 22, Episode 4
Date Added: 9/22/11
As the wife of the fourth President, James Madison, Dolley Madison played an important part in the political and social experiment that was the early...
Earth Days
Original Air Date: 4/19/10 |
Season 22, Episode 5
Date Added: 9/22/11
Earth Days traces the origins of the modern environmental movement.
Grand Central
Original Air Date: 2/4/08 |
Season 20, Episode 4
Date Added: 12/1/10
Telling the story of the landmark's construction through historians, architects, and engineers, while weaving in portraits from present day New...
Into the Deep: America, Whaling and the World
Original Air Date: 5/10/10 |
Season 22, Episode 8
Date Added: 9/22/11
For two centuries, American whale oil lit the world - illuminating and powering the start of the industrial revolution and laying the groundwork for a...
My Lai
Original Air Date: 4/26/10 |
Season 22, Episode 6
Date Added: 9/22/11
In an exploration of the morality of actions taken in the name of war, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE directs its lens to the 1968 My Lai massacre and asks what...
Roads to Memphis
Original Air Date: 5/3/10 |
Season 22, Episode 7
Date Added: 12/1/10
On April 4, 1968, escaped convict James Earl Ray shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King. Roads to Memphis is the fateful narrative of this killer and...
The Bombing of Germany
Original Air Date: 2/8/10 |
Season 22, Episode 3
Date Added: 12/1/10
Six years after the start of WWII in Europe, British and American Allied forces carried out bombing campaigns over German cities, claiming half a...
The Polio Crusade
Original Air Date: 1/26/09 |
Season 21, Episode 2
Date Added: 12/1/10
The Polio Crusade, interweaving the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of a crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while...
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Original Air Date: 1/26/09 |
Season 21, Episode 1
Date Added: 12/1/10
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer featuring interviews with the scientist?s former colleagues and scholars to present a revealing portrait of one of...
We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower
Original Air Date: 1/26/09 |
Season 21, Episode 5
Date Added: 12/1/10
In 1621, the Wampanoag of New England negotiated a treaty with Pilgrim settlers. A half-century later, as a brutal war flared between the English and...
We Shall Remain: Geronimo
Original Air Date: 1/26/09 |
Season 21, Episode 8
Date Added: 12/1/10
As the leader of the last Native American fighting force to capitulate to the U.S. government, Geronimo was seen by some as the perpetrator of...
We Shall Remain: Tecumseh?s Vision
Original Air Date: 1/26/09 |
Season 21, Episode 6
Date Added: 12/1/10
In the course of his brief and meteoric career, Tecumseh would become one of the greatest Native American leaders of all time, orchestrating the most...
We Shall Remain: Trail of Tears
Original Air Date: 1/26/09 |
Season 21, Episode 7
Date Added: 12/1/10
Though the Cherokee embraced ?civilization? and won recognition of tribal sovereignty in the U.S. Supreme Court, their resistance to removal from...
We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee
Original Air Date: 1/26/09 |
Season 21, Episode 9
Date Added: 12/1/10
In 1973, American Indian Movement activists and residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation occupied the town of Wounded Knee, demanding redress for...
Wyatt Earp
Original Air Date: 1/25/10 |
Season 22, Episode 2
Date Added: 12/1/10
Wyatt Earp is portrayed in movies and television by some of Hollywood's greatest actors, but these fictions often belie the complexities and flaws of...