American Experience

Season 27

TV-PG
"American Experience" combines dramatic re-enactments with commentary by historians and authors to present an absorbing look at the personalities, events and resources that have had a profound impact on the shaping of America's past and present.

Where to Watch Season 27

11 Episodes

  • Ripley: Believe It or Not
    E1
    Ripley: Believe It or NotBucktoothed but athletic, shy, stuttering and stammering newspaper sports cartoonist Leroy Robert Ripley catapulted into national celebrity when his interests in odd facts and Asian cultures caught widespread public interest under his column heading of Believe It or Not, making him the most unsuccessfully imitated and traveled man of his time.
  • Klansville, USA
    E2
    Klansville, USAInvestigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.
  • Edison
    E3
    EdisonEDISON explores the complex alchemy that accounts for the enduring celebrity of America's most famous inventor, offering new perspectives on the man and his milieu, and illuminating not only the true nature of invention, but its role in turn-of-the-century America's rush into the future.
  • The Big Burn
    E4
    The Big BurnIn the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were dead. It was the largest fire in American history.
  • The Forgotten Plague
    E5
    The Forgotten PlagueTuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits, social habits, economic development and public policy, TB and its impact are poorly understood.
  • Last Days In Vietnam
    E6
    Last Days In VietnamIn April of 1975, the North Vietnamese Army was closing in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance was crumbling. On the ground, American and South Vietnamese took matters into their own hands to evacuate as many people as possible.
  • Blackout
    E7
    BlackoutFirst responders, journalists, shop owners, those inside the pressure-packed control center of Con Edison on West End Avenue, and other New Yorkers tell about what happened when the lights went out on July 13, 1977
  • Walt Disney (1)
    E8
    Walt Disney (1)In 1966, the year Walt Disney died, 240 million people saw a Disney movie, 100 million tuned in to a Disney television program, 80 million bought Disney merchandise, and close to seven million visited Disneyland. Few creative figures before or since have held such a long-lasting place in American life and popular culture.
  • Walt Disney (2)
    E9
    Walt Disney (2)In 1966, the year Walt Disney died, 240 million people saw a Disney movie, 100 million tuned in to a Disney television program, 80 million bought Disney merchandise, and close to seven million visited Disneyland. Few creative figures before or since have held such a long-lasting place in American life and popular culture.
  • American Comandante
    E10
    American ComandanteWhen William Morgan was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961, his strange story seemed to vanish from the popular imagination as quickly as it had appeared; it was lost in the classified archives of the Cold War and edited out of Cuban history by Fidel Castro’s retelling of the revolution.
  • The Pilgrims
    E11
    The PilgrimsThe challenges the Pilgrims faced in making new lives for themselves still resonate almost 400 years later: the tensions of faith and freedom in American society, the separation of Church and State, and cultural encounters resulting from immigration. Staring: Roger Rees (1944 - 2015) as William Bradford in his final Television appearance.

 

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