American Experience
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
Season 1
16 episodes
Premiered Oct 3, 1988
Season 2
16 episodes
Premiered Oct 2, 1989
Season 3
11 episodes
Premiered Aug 26, 1990
Season 4
13 episodes
Premiered Sep 29, 1991
Season 5
13 episodes
Premiered Sep 19, 1992
Season 6
8 episodes
Premiered Oct 26, 1993
Season 7
12 episodes
Premiered Oct 11, 1994
Season 8
9 episodes
Premiered Oct 15, 1995
Season 9
22 episodes
Premiered Oct 5, 1996
Season 10
9 episodes
Premiered Oct 4, 1997
Season 11
10 episodes
Premiered Nov 17, 1998
Season 12
15 episodes
Premiered Nov 13, 1999
Season 13
12 episodes
Premiered Oct 16, 2000
Season 14
14 episodes
Premiered Sep 9, 2001
Season 15
13 episodes
Premiered Nov 10, 2002
Season 16
9 episodes
Premiered Sep 7, 2003
Season 17
11 episodes
Premiered Oct 3, 2004
Season 18
13 episodes
Premiered Oct 16, 2005
Season 19
15 episodes
Premiered Oct 1, 2006
Season 20
14 episodes
Premiered Jan 13, 2008
Season 21
9 episodes
Premiered Jan 25, 2009
Season 22
8 episodes
Premiered Nov 1, 2009
Season 23
12 episodes
Premiered Oct 10, 2010
Season 24
8 episodes
Premiered Jan 9, 2012
Season 25
8 episodes
Premiered Jan 7, 2013
Season 26
7 episodes
Premiered Jan 6, 2014
Season 27
11 episodes
Premiered Jan 5, 2015
Season 28
8 episodes
Premiered Jan 18, 2016
Season 29
8 episodes
Premiered Jan 9, 2017
Season 30
9 episodes
Premiered Jan 8, 2018
Season 31
7 episodes
Premiered Jan 14, 2019
Season 32
8 episodes
Premiered Jan 5, 2020
Season 33
8 episodes
Premiered Jan 11, 2021
Season 34
6 episodes
Premiered Feb 7, 2022
Season 35
9 episodes
Premiered Jan 3, 2023
Season 36
7 episodes
Premiered Jan 23, 2024
Season 37
8 episodes
Premiered Feb 24, 2025
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
From Enrico Caruso to the ordinary San Franciscan, this film presents vivid memories of those trapped in the terrifying event of 1906. Four hundred eighty square blocks were reduced to rubble; thousands were killed, tens of thousands left homeless. Then the heroic struggle to rebuild a city from the ashes began.
Ep 2Radio Bikini
While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publicized nuclear tests. Seven hundred fifty cameras were shipped to Bikini to be used for a major propaganda film. Bikinians had no say about turning their idyllic island into an atomic test site. Forty years later, their home would still be too contaminated to support human life.
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
As a child in 1899, Angie Debo was taken to Oklahoma in a covered wagon. She would become her state's most controversial historian -- her career threatened when she uncovered a cache of documents which proved a widespread conspiracy to cheat Native Americans out of oil-rich lands.
Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
A touching memoir beginning with life in a small Minnesota town and taking us through a young man's early days as pacifist. Reporting on the rise of fascism in Europe, Sevareid, as a young CBS reporter, would change his belief. Based on Sevareid's best-selling book of the same title.
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and interviews with five, real-life "Rosies" about the reality of working in the defense plants during WWII, and their reactions to having to give up those jobs for returning GIs.
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families who have lived in Big Piney for six generations. Although very much the same as it was one hundred years ago -- tough, lonely, but still romantic -- ranching is now a threatened way of life.
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