Episode guide
American Experience: Season 15
13 episodes · premiered Nov 11, 2002
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- Episode 1: Jimmy Carter (1): Jimmy Who? Nov 11, 2002 · 55m An evocative two-part profile of Jimmy Carter explores how his career has been shaped by what former speechwriter Hendrik Hertzberg calls his "moral ideology." Produced by Adriana Bosch…
- Episode 2: Jimmy Carter (2): Hostage Nov 12, 2002 · 55m "Hostage," the conclusion of a two-part Jimmy Carter biography, covers his presidency and post-presidency. Human rights were to be "a basic tenet of our foreign policy," Carter declared in…
- Episode 3: Chicago: City of the Century (1): Mudhole to Metropolis Jan 13, 2003 · 55m A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America." Part 1 begins with the arrival of French explorers…
- Episode 4: Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun Jan 14, 2003 · 55m A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America." Part 2 covers the 1870s and '80s, when the city's…
- Episode 5: Chicago: City of the Century (3): Battle for Chicago Jan 15, 2003 · 55m A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America." Part 3 concludes by exploring the city's ethnic and…
- Episode 6: The Murder of Emmett Till Jan 20, 2003 · 55m Recalling the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old black youth in the Mississippi delta, an incident that could very well have launched the civil-rights movement. "He was a sacrificial lamb," says…
- Episode 7: Transcontinental Railroad Jan 27, 2003 · 55m Charting the race between the Union Pacific and Central Pacific to construct a transcontinental railroad to link the U.S. It ended May 10, 1869, in Promontory Point, Utah. The construction…
- Episode 8: Partners of the Heart Feb 10, 2003 · 55m Chronicling the unlikely partnership between a white surgeon and a black "technician" that led to a procedure to correct blue-baby syndrome in 1944. The principals: Vivien Thomas, a black…
- Episode 9: The Pill Feb 24, 2003 · 55m Charting the development of an oral contraceptive during the 1950s and its effect on "the sexual revolution" of the '60s. It was enormous. Says Sylvia Clark, who grew up before the pill…
- Episode 10: Daughter from Danang Apr 7, 2003 · 55m "Daughter from Danang," an Oscar-nominated documentary, chronicles the tearful reunion of an Amerasian refugee with her Vietnamese family 22 years after the war ended. Heidi Bub, who was…
- Episode 11: Seabiscuit Apr 21, 2003 · 55m "Seabiscuit" recalls the squat and ugly racehorse that riveted the nation in the late 1930s. Interviewees include author Laura Hillenbrand ("Seabiscuit: An American Legend"), who charts…
- Episode 12: Bataan Rescue Jul 7, 2003 · 55m "Bataan Rescue," narrated by Scott Glenn, recalls the daring January 1945 commando raid that freed 513 survivors of the 1942 Bataan Death March who were being held in a Japanese POW camp…
- Episode 13: Murder at Harvard Jul 14, 2003 · 55m Historian Simon Schama ("A History of Britain") plays sleuth -- searching, he says, "not for literal truth, but for poetic truth" -- as he speculates about whether an innocent man was…