Episode guide
American Experience: Season 20
14 episodes · premiered Jan 13, 2008
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- Episode 1: Oswald's Ghost Jan 14, 2008 · 55m Few Americans then or now accept that a lone, inconsequential gunman could bring down a president and alter history. In that breach, a culture of conspiracy has arisen that points to…
- Episode 2: The Lobotomist Jan 21, 2008 · 55m In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of…
- Episode 3: Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies Feb 3, 2008 · 55m After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the civil rights movement: the insistent call for power. Malcolm X takes an eloquent nationalism to urban streets as a younger…
- Episode 4: Grand Central Feb 4, 2008 · 55m A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd Street that forever changed midtown Manhattan.
- Episode 5: Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land Feb 10, 2008 · 55m The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes wins election as the first black mayor of a major American city. The Black…
- Episode 6: Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law? Feb 17, 2008 · 55m A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize black America. World heavyweight champion Cassius Clay challenges America to accept him as Muhammad Ali, a minister of Islam who…
- Episode 7: Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement Feb 24, 2008 · 55m In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. In Boston, some whites violently resist a federal court school…
- Episode 8: Kit Carson Feb 18, 2008 · 55m An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native American women, yet led a brutal war against the Navajo. When the West was a…
- Episode 9: Buffalo Bill Feb 25, 2008 · 55m In 1886, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show played to over one million people in New York City. It was one of the most elaborate shows on earth. There were cowboys and Indians, sharp shooters…
- Episode 10: Minik: The Lost Eskimo Mar 31, 2009 · 55m In 1897, renowned Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to New York from his latest Greenland expedition. At the request of anthropologist Franz Boas, he brought with him five polar Inuits…
- Episode 11: Walt Whitman Apr 14, 2008 · 55m This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his…
- Episode 12: Roberto Clemente Apr 21, 2008 · 55m Roberto Clemente is an in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination to become baseball’s first Latino superstar…
- Episode 13: George H.W. Bush (1) May 5, 2008 · 55m When George. H.W. Bush left the Oval Office in 1992, rejected after one tumultuous presidential term, his 30-year career in public service came to an abrupt and unexpected end. Despite…
- Episode 14: George H.W. Bush (2) May 6, 2008 · 55m George H.W. Bush presents the first in-depth assessment of the 41st president of the United States, drawing upon unparalleled access to figures in Bush's private and public life, to reveal…