American Experience
PRIMETIME EMMYS® 1X nominee in 2016
IMDb 8.620109 episodes
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- S1 E1 - The LobotomistJanuary 20, 200855minThis program tells the gripping tale of medical intervention gone awry.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E2 - Grand CentralFebruary 3, 200851minOn January 8, 1902, a commuter train traveling through a tunnel in New York City's Grand Central Depot ran into another train, killing 17 people. An engineer's innovative response to the crisis gave birth to one of America's greatest establishments: Grand Central Terminal.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E3 - The Trials of J. Robert OppenheimerJanuary 25, 20091 h 50 minThis biography presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of America's most influential scientists.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E4 - The Polio CrusadeFebruary 1, 200953minThis film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded diseaseThis video is currently unavailable
- S1 E5 - Earth DaysApril 18, 20101 h 41 minDirector Robert Stone traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its beginnings in the 1950s.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E5 - Dolley MadisonFebruary 28, 20101 h 24 minDolley Madison lived through the two wars that established the U.S., was friends with the first 12 Presidents, and watched America evolve from a struggling young republic to the first modern democracy in the world.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E6 - My LaiApril 25, 20101 h 23 minExamines one of the darkest chapters of the Vietnam War: the 1968 My Lai massacre, its cover-up and the soldiers who broke rank to halt the atrocities.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E7 - Roads to MemphisMay 2, 20101 h 21 minThe wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E8 - Into the DeepMay 9, 20101 h 53 minCharts the rapid rise and precipitous decline of the American whaling industry, which powered the start of the industrial revolution and laid the groundwork for a truly global economy in the 18th and 19th centuries.This video is currently unavailable
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- Directors
- Varies by Episode
- Producers
- WGBH
- Cast
- David McCulloughDavid Ogden StiersMichael MurphyOliver PlattJoe MortonLinda HuntCampbell ScottLiev SchreiberWill LymanPhilip Bosco
- Studio
- PBS
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