Episode guide
American Experience: Season 13
12 episodes · premiered Oct 16, 2000
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- Episode 1: The Rockefellers (1) Oct 17, 2000 · 55m A dramatic two-part profile of the Rockefellers, a family whose name is synonymous with wealth, begins. Part 1 traces how John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) struck oil (figuratively) in the…
- Episode 2: The Rockefellers (2) Oct 24, 2000 · 55m The conclusion of a profile of the Rockefellers explores how John D. Jr. accomplished "the seemingly impossible task of redeeming the family name," says narrator David Ogden Stiers…
- Episode 3: Secrets of a Master Builder Oct 30, 2000 · 55m Charting the life on the Mississippi of James B. Eads (1820-1887), "one of the greatest engineering geniuses of all time," says narrator David McCullough. Eads designed, built and financed…
- Episode 4: Return with Honor Nov 13, 2000 · 55m Vietnam POWs recall their ordeals -- at times with great poignancy -- in a first-person history that supplements the comments with North Vietnamese war footage. As the veterans describe it…
- Episode 5: Streamliners: America's Last Trains Feb 5, 2001 · 55m Recalling the stainless steel trains that crisscrossed the country in high style (and at speeds of greater than 100 mph) during the 1930s and '40s. The streamliners -- most notably the…
- Episode 6: Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind Feb 12, 2001 · 55m Recalling racial-pride advocate Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), whose grand (some said grandiose) vision included an Africa run by Africans. Garvey's Harlem-based United Negro Improvement…
- Episode 7: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part I Feb 19, 2001 · 55m Parts 1 and 2 of a six-part chronicle of the Abraham Lincoln-Mary Todd relationship begins with their childhoods and courtship. He, of course, was born into poverty; she, however, grew up…
- Episode 8: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part II Feb 20, 2001 · 55m Parts 3 and 4 of the six-part series. When the Lincolns arrive in Washington, D.C., in 1861, the president-elect is deemed untested and is mistrusted; Mary, meanwhile, is suspected of…
- Episode 9: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part III Feb 21, 2001 · 55m Parts 5 and 6 of a six-part chronicle. The third part recalls 1863, when opposition to the Civil War spread among Northerners: some see the high level of casualties as unacceptable, while…
- Episode 10: Scottsboro: An American Tragedy Apr 2, 2001 · 55m Following the 17-year struggle to free nine blacks falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. The struggle, which involved communist activists and laid the groundwork…
- Episode 11: Fatal Flood Apr 16, 2001 · 55m Recalling the tidal wave of racial conflict that followed in the wake of the surging Mississippi as it inundated the delta town of Greenville, Miss., in April 1927. Greenville's leading…
- Episode 12: Stephen Foster Apr 23, 2001 · 55m A profile of quintessentially American composer Stephen Foster features interviews with historian Fath Ruffins, biographer Ken Emerson, musicologists Josephine Wright and Dale Cockrell…