Thursday, July 21, 2011

list of American experience episodes

The Presidents
John and Abigail Adams
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
FDR
Truman
The Kennedys
LBJ
Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Reagan
George H.W. Bush

Biographies
Citizen King – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
MacArthur – General Douglas MacArthur
The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
The Rockefellers
Secrets of a Master Builder – James Eads and the Mississippi
Alexander Hamilton
The Sins of Our Mothers – Emeline Gurney
Roberto Clemente
Walt Whitman
Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo – Angie Debo
Dolley Madison
Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage, October 27, 1993 (Season 6, Episode 3) – Amelia Earhart at the Internet Movie Database – Amelia Earhart
Robert E. Lee 1/4/2011
U. S. Grant January 2011

War and Politics

Politics
Chicago 1968 – 1968 Democratic National Convention

Daley - America's Last Boss

World War II
Bataan Rescue
D-day
Battle of the Bulge
America and the Holocaust
The Bombing of Germany

The Cold War
The Berlin Airlift

Civil Rights
A Class Apart – From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who took Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-style discrimination. Aired February 23, 2009.
Marcus Garvey: Look For Me In the Whirlwind
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Emmett Till
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Eyes On the Prize – the story of the Civil Rights movement from 1950 through 1980
Simple Justice – 1993, Dramatization of the struggle of Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall to achieve racial justice, based on the book of the same title by Richard Kluger.

Military Technology
The Living Weapon – History of biological weapons program in United States.
Race for the Superbomb

Native Americans

We Shall Remain – A five part History of Native Americans and their resistance to European and American expansion.

Technology

American Business/Labor
Tupperware
Mr. Sears Catalogue
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World

Aviation/Space
Race to the Moon

History of Health and Medicine
The Boy in the Bubble
Test Tube Babies
The Great Fever – the search for the transmitter of Yellow Fever, and Walter Reed's contribution to that effort
Influenza 1918 – looks at one of the worst epidemics in American history.
The Lobotomist – The story of Dr. Walter Freeman who championed the use of lobotomies on the mentally ill.
The Polio Crusade – The impact of polio and the campaign to conquer it beginning with the March of Dimes in the 1930s and culminating in the creation of the vaccine by Dr. Jonas Salk in the 1950s.

Innovations
Edison's Miracle of Light
The Great Transatlantic Cable
Streamliners: America's Lost Trains

The American Landscape

Cities
Chicago:City of the Century
Golden Gate Bridge
Grand Central
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History
Mr. Miami Beach
New Orleans
New York Underground
New York: A Documentary Film
New York: The Center of the World – Postwar New York—told through the story of the rise and fall of the World Trade Center.

Natural Disasters
Fatal Flood – focuses on 1927 Mississippi river flood
Hurricane of '38 – focuses on 1938 Hurricane through the Northeastern states

The Environment
Hoover Dam

Westward Expansion
Remember the Alamo
Gold Rush
Transcontinental Railroad
The Iron Road
The Donner Party

Western Biographies
Wyatt Earp
Jesse James
Kit Carson
Buffalo Bill
Annie Oakley

Turning Points
America 1900 – Tells the story of the United States at the turn of century in 1900.
The 1930s – A collection of films that explores America in the 1930s.
Stonewall Uprising — About the Stonewall riots, the flashpoint of the modern gay liberation movement.

Popular culture

Arts and Entertainment
Ansel Adams
Barnum's Big Top
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Big Dream Small Screen
The Carter Family – Discusses the successes and failures of A.P. Carter and his singing partners during the Great Depression.
Coney Island
Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo
Eugene O'Neill
Houdini
Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
Mary Pickford
Mount Rushmore
Patriot's Day
Miss America
The Quiz Show Scandal
Steven Foster
Sister Aimee
Summer of Love – Centers on San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district and the hippie movement during the summer of 1967.

Crime and Punishment
Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Jonestown: Life and Death of Peoples Temple
The Massie AffairThe Story of racial tensions over a rape trial in 1930s Hawaii
Murder of the Century — Concerns the 1906 murder of architect Stanford White by wealthy heir Harry Thaw over singer/model Evelyn Nesbit

The Great Depression
Seabiscuit
Riding The Rails
The Civilian Conservation Corps
The Crash of 1929
Hoover Dam
Surviving the Dust Bowl

Immigrant Experience
A Class Apart – From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who took Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-style discrimination. Aired February 23, 2009.

Spiritualism
Sister Aimee

Sports
The Fight – story of the boxing match and rematch between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling
Roberto Clemente

Frontline co-production
God in America 400-year history of religion and public life, including American exceptionalism and politics, in the United States of America.

Miscellaneous
Hijacked – Tells the story of the 1970 PFLP hijacking, and subsequent destruction, of four commercial airliners.

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