Episode guide
American Experience: Season 35
9 episodes · premiered Jan 3, 2023
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- Episode 1: The Lie Detector Jan 3, 2023 · 53m Discover the story of the polygraph, the controversial device that transformed modern police work, seized headlines and was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool. A tale of good…
- Episode 2: Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space Jan 17, 2023 · 1h 52m Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean — reclaiming…
- Episode 3: Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History Feb 20, 2023 · 52m Monopoly is America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. But behind the myth of the game’s creation is an untold tale of theft…
- Episode 4: The Movement and the "Madman" Mar 28, 2023 · 1h 22m Discover the story of the 1969 showdown between President Nixon and the antiwar movement. Told through firsthand accounts, the film reveals how movement leaders mobilized disparate groups…
- Episode 5: The Sun Queen Apr 4, 2023 · 52m Scientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. Though undercut and thwarted by her male colleagues, she persevered to design the first successfully…
- Episode 6: Casa Susanna Jun 27, 2023 · 1h 37m In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house…
- Episode 7: The Busing Battleground Sep 11, 2023 · 1h 53m The Busing Battleground viscerally captures the class tensions and racial violence that ensued when Black and white students in Boston were bused for the first time between neighborhoods…
- Episode 8: The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools Sep 12, 2023 · 1h 47m When the Supreme Court issued an order to fully and immediately desegregate schools in October 1969, Leland Mississippi finally met the demand put forth in the 1954 Brown v Board of…
- Episode 9: The War on Disco Oct 30, 2023 · 51m The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the rise of Disco music. The hostility came to a head on July 12, 1979, when a riot led by rock fans broke out at “Disco…