Episode guide
American Experience: Season 16
9 episodes · premiered Sep 7, 2003
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- Episode 1: New York (8): The Center of the World Sep 8, 2003 · 55m Filmmaker Ric Burns adds a poignant postscript to his series "New York: A Documentary Film" with this chronicle of the World Trade Center's rise and fall. Burns recounts Sept. 11…
- Episode 2: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (1): Revolution Jan 12, 2004 · 55m "Reconstruction: The Second Civil War," a two-part report, follows political leaders and ordinary Americans alike as it chronicles one of the most contentious periods in American history…
- Episode 3: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2): Retreat Jan 13, 2004 · 55m "Reconstruction" concludes by following whites and blacks in Georgia, South Carolina and Louisiana between 1867 and 1877. It begins with the granting of widespread voting rights for blacks…
- Episode 4: Citizen King Jan 19, 2004 · 55m "Citizen King," a reverential chronicle of the final five years of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, employs eyewitnesses to the history King made to recall it. Among them: Coretta Scott…
- Episode 5: Remember the Alamo Feb 2, 2004 · 55m "Remember the Alamo" recalls the contributions of Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) to the struggle for Texan independence. It profiles Tejano leader Jose Antonio Navarro (1795-1871), an ally of…
- Episode 6: Tupperware! Feb 9, 2004 · 55m "Modern dishes for modern living" (and they "burped," no less), sold by women at "home parties." This slice of 1950s Americana is recalled in "Tupperware!" "The era and the product were…
- Episode 7: Emma Goldman Apr 12, 2004 · 55m Recalling Emma Goldman (1869-1940), the fiery and formidable radical whose life, says narrator Blair Brown, was "dedicated to free speech, free thought and free love." This profile is…
- Episode 8: Patriots Day Apr 19, 2004 · 55m "Patriots Day" follows Revolutionary War re-enactors as they prepare to re-fire those shots heard 'round the world on April 19, 1775, in Lexington and Concord. Filmmaker Marian Marzynski's…
- Episode 9: Golden Gate Bridge May 3, 2004 · 55m Recalling the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, a "graceful leap over an unprecedented space," as narrator David Ogden Stiers calls it. The Golden Gate presented its engineers with a…