American Experience

Season 1 Season 1 16 ep

1 The Great San Francisco Earthquake 1988-10-04 2 Radio Bikini 1988-10-11 3 Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo 1988-10-18 4 Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream 1988-10-25 5 The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter 1988-11-01 6 Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys? 1988-11-08 7 Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close 1988-11-15 8 Geronimo and the Apache Resistance 1988-11-22 9 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited 1988-11-29 10 That Rhythm, Those Blues 1988-12-06 11 The Radio Priest 1988-12-13 12 Hearts and Hands 1988-12-20 13 Views of a Vanishing Frontier 1988-12-27 14 Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings 1989-01-03 15 The World That Moses Built 1989-01-10 16 Sins of Our Mothers 1989-01-17

Season 2 Season 2 16 ep

1 The Great Air Race of 1924 1989-10-03 2 Demon Rum 1989-10-10 3 A Family Gathering 1989-10-17 4 The Great War: 1918 1989-10-24 5 Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil 1989-10-31 6 Forever Baseball 1989-11-07 7 Mr. Sears' Catalogue 1989-11-14 8 Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven 1989-11-21 9 Adam Clayton Powell 1989-11-28 10 Journey to America 1989-12-05 11 Ballad of a Mountain Man 1989-12-12 12 Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice 1989-12-19 13 Orphans of the Storm 1989-12-26 14 Forbidden City, USA 1990-01-02 15 Battle for Wilderness 1990-01-09 16 Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad 1990-01-16

Season 3 Season 3 13 ep

1 Lindbergh 1990-08-27 2 Nixon (1): The Quest 1990-10-15 3 Nixon (2): Triumph 1990-10-15 4 Nixon (3): The Fall 1990-10-15 5 God Bless America and Poland, Too 1990-10-22 6 Insanity on Trial 1990-10-29 7 The Satellite Sky 1990-11-05 8 The Crash of 1929 1990-11-19 9 The Iron Road 1990-11-26 10 French Dance Tonight 1990-12-10 11 After the Crash 1991-01-07 12 Los Mineros 1991-01-28 13 Coney Island 1991-02-04

Season 4 Season 4 13 ep

1 LBJ (1) 1991-09-30 2 LBJ (2) 1991-09-30 3 The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry 1991-10-07 4 Scandalous Mayor 1991-10-28 5 The Johnstown Flood 1991-11-04 6 Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance 1991-11-11 7 G-Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover 1992-02-24 8 Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo 1991-12-09 9 The Quiz Show Scandal 1992-01-06 10 Love in the Cold War 1992-01-13 11 Wild by Law 1992-02-10 12 Barnum's Big Top 1991-10-14 13 In the White Man's Image 1992-02-17

Season 5 Season 5 13 ep

1 The Kennedys (1): The Father, 1900-61 1992-09-20 2 The Kennedys (2): The Sons, 1961-80 1992-09-21 3 The Donner Party 1992-10-28 4 Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II 1992-11-04 5 George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King 1992-11-18 6 Last Stand at Little Big Horn 1992-11-25 7 If You Knew Sousa 1993-01-11 8 Simple Justice 1993-01-18 9 Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish 1993-02-08 10 Sit Down And Fight 1993-02-01 11 Rachel Carson's Silent Spring 1993-02-15 12 Goin' Back to T-Town 1993-03-01 20 Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian 1992-12-02

Season 6 Season 6 8 ep

1 Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage 1993-10-27 2 The Hunt for Pancho Villa 1993-11-08 3 Ike (1): Soldier 1993-11-10 4 Ike (2): Statesman 1993-11-10 5 Malcolm X: Make It Plain 1994-01-26 6 America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference 1994-04-06 7 D-Day Remembered 1994-05-25 8 The Hurricane of '38 1993-11-17

Season 7 Season 7 13 ep

1 FDR (1): The Center of the World (1882-1921) 1994-10-12 2 FDR (2): Fear Itself (1922-1933) 1992-10-12 3 FDR (3): The Grandest Job in the World (1933-1940) 1994-10-13 4 FDR (4): The Juggler (1940-1945) 1994-10-13 5 Telegrams from the Dead 1994-10-19 6 Midnight Ramble 1994-10-26 7 Battle of the Bulge 1994-11-09 10 One Woman, One Vote (1) 1995-01-23 11 One Woman, One Vote (2) 1995-01-30 12 The Way West (1): Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1845-1864) 1995-05-08 13 The Way West (2): The Approach of Civilization (1865-1869) 1995-05-09 14 The Way West (3): The War for the Black Hills (1870-1876) 1995-05-16 15 The Way West (4): Ghost Dance (1877-1893) 1995-05-17

Season 8 Season 8 9 ep

1 Murder of the Century 1995-10-16 2 Edison's Miracle of Light 1995-10-23 3 Chicago 1968 1995-11-13 4 The Orphan Trains 1995-11-27 5 Freedom on My Mind 1996-01-15 6 Daley: The Last Boss 1996-01-22 7 The Battle Over Citizen Kane 1996-01-29 8 The Wright Stuff 1996-02-12 9 Spy in the Sky 1996-02-26

Season 9 Season 9 22 ep

1 T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (1): The Long Campaign 1996-10-06 2 T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (2): The Bully Pulpit 1996-10-06 3 The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie 1997-01-20 4 Hawaii's Last Queen 1997-01-27 5 The Telephone 1997-02-03 6 Big Dream, Small Screen 1997-02-10 7 New York Underground 1997-02-17 8 Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern 1997-04-14 9 Around the World in 72 Days 1997-04-28 10 Gold Fever 1997-05-12 11 Vietnam: A Television History (Part 1 & 2) 1997-05-26 12 Vietnam: A Television History (3): LBJ Goes to War 1997-06-02 13 Vietnam: A Television History (4): America Takes Charge 1997-06-09 14 Vietnam: A Television History (5): America's Enemy 1997-06-16 15 Vietnam: A Television History (6): Tet 1968 1997-06-23 16 Vietnam: A Television History (7): Vietnamizing the War 1997-06-30 17 Vietnam: A Television History (8): Cambodia and Laos 1997-07-07 18 Vietnam: A Television History (9): Peace is at Hand 1997-07-14 19 Vietnam: A Television History (10): Homefront USA 1997-07-21 20 Vietnam: A Television History (11): The End of the Tunnel 1997-07-28 30 T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (3): The Good Fight 1996-10-07 31 T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (4): Black Care 1996-10-07

Season 10 Season 10 9 ep

1 Truman (1): An Accident of Democracy 1997-10-05 2 Truman (2): The Moon, the Stars and All the Planets 1997-10-06 3 A Midwife's Tale 1998-01-19 4 Mr. Miami Beach 1998-02-02 5 Influenza 1918 1998-02-09 6 Reagan (1): Lifeguard 1998-02-23 7 Reagan (2): An American Crusade 1998-02-24 8 Surviving the Dust Bowl 1998-03-02 9 Riding the Rails 1998-04-13

Season 11 Season 11 10 ep

1 America 1900 1998-11-18 2 Race for the Superbomb 1999-01-11 3 Hoover Dam 1999-01-18 4 Alone on the Ice 1999-02-08 5 Rescue at Sea 1999-02-15 6 Meltdown at Three Mile Island 1999-02-22 7 Lost in the Grand Canyon 1999-04-05 8 MacArthur (1): Destiny 1999-05-17 9 MacArthur (2): The Politics of War 1999-05-18 10 Fly Girls 1999-05-24

Season 12 Season 12 15 ep

1 New York (1): The Country and the City 1999-11-14 2 New York (2): Order and Disorder 1999-11-15 3 New York (3): Sunshine and Shadow 1999-11-16 4 New York (4): The Power and the People 1999-11-17 5 New York (5): Cosmopolis 1999-11-18 6 Eleanor Roosevelt 2000-01-10 7 Houdini 2000-01-24 8 Nixon's China Game 2000-01-31 9 The Duel 2000-02-14 10 John Brown's Holy War 2000-02-28 11 George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (1) 2000-04-23 12 George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (2) 2000-04-24 13 Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory 2000-05-01 14 Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life 2000-05-08 15 The Wizard of Photography 2000-05-23

Season 13 Season 13 12 ep

1 The Rockefellers (1) 2000-10-17 2 The Rockefellers (2) 2000-10-24 3 Secrets of a Master Builder 2000-10-30 4 Return with Honor 2000-11-13 5 Streamliners: America's Last Trains 2001-02-05 6 Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind 2001-02-12 7 Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part I 2001-02-19 8 Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part II 2001-02-20 9 Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part III 2001-02-21 10 Scottsboro: An American Tragedy 2001-04-02 11 Fatal Flood 2001-04-16 12 Stephen Foster 2001-04-23

Season 14 Season 14 14 ep

1 New York (6): The City of Tomorrow 2001-09-10 2 New York (7): The City and the World 2001-09-17 3 War Letters 2001-11-01 4 Woodrow Wilson (1): A Passionate Man 2002-01-06 5 Woodrow Wilson (2): The Redemption of the World 2002-01-13 6 Mount Rushmore 2002-01-20 7 Miss America 2002-01-27 8 Zoot Suit Riots 2002-03-01 9 Monkey Trial 2002-02-23 10 Public Enemy #1 2002-02-17 11 Ansel Adams 2002-04-21 12 A Brilliant Madness 2002-04-28 13 Ulysses S. Grant (1): The Warrior 2002-04-01 14 Ulysses S. Grant (2): The President 2002-04-02

Season 15 Season 15 13 ep

1 Jimmy Carter (1): Jimmy Who? 2002-11-11 2 Jimmy Carter (2): Hostage 2002-11-12 3 Chicago: City of the Century (1): Mudhole to Metropolis 2003-01-13 4 Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun 2003-01-14 5 Chicago: City of the Century (3): Battle for Chicago 2003-01-15 6 The Murder of Emmett Till 2003-01-20 7 Transcontinental Railroad 2003-01-27 8 Partners of the Heart 2003-02-10 9 The Pill 2003-02-24 10 Daughter from Danang 2003-04-07 11 Seabiscuit 2003-04-21 12 Bataan Rescue 2003-07-07 13 Murder at Harvard 2003-07-14

Season 16 Season 16 9 ep

1 New York (8): The Center of the World 2003-09-08 2 Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (1): Revolution 2004-01-12 3 Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2): Retreat 2004-01-13 4 Citizen King 2004-01-19 5 Remember the Alamo 2004-02-02 6 Tupperware! 2004-02-09 7 Emma Goldman 2004-04-12 8 Patriots Day 2004-04-19 9 Golden Gate Bridge 2004-05-03

Season 17 Season 17 11 ep

1 RFK (Part 1 & 2) 2004-10-04 2 The Fight 2005-01-24 3 Fidel Castro 2005-01-31 4 Building the Alaska Highway 2005-02-07 5 Kinsey 2005-02-14 6 Mary Pickford 2005-04-04 7 The Great Transatlantic Cable 2005-04-11 8 The Massie Affair 2005-04-18 9 Victory in the Pacific 2005-05-02 10 The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken? 2005-05-09 11 Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst 2005-05-23

Season 18 Season 18 13 ep

1 Two Days in October 2005-10-17 2 Race to the Moon 2005-10-31 3 Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (1): Sin City 2005-11-14 4 Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (2): American Mecca 2005-11-15 5 John and Abigail Adams 2006-01-23 6 The Nuremberg Trials 2006-01-30 7 Jesse James 2006-02-06 8 Hijacked 2006-02-25 9 Eugene O'Neill 2006-03-21 10 The Boy in the Bubble 2006-04-10 11 The Alaska Pipeline 2006-04-24 12 Annie Oakley 2006-05-08 13 The Man Behind Hitler 2006-05-22

Season 19 Season 19 15 ep

1 Eyes on the Prize (1 & 2): Awakenings 1954-1956 / Fighting Back 1957-1962 2006-10-02 2 Eyes on the Prize (3 & 4): Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961/No Easy Walk 1961-1963 2006-10-09 3 Eyes on the Prize (5 & 6): Is This America? 1963-1964 / Bridge to Freedom 1965 2006-10-16 4 Test Tube Babies 2006-10-23 5 The Great Fever 2006-10-30 6 The Gold Rush 2006-11-06 7 The Berlin Airlift 2007-01-29 8 The Living Weapon 2007-02-05 9 New Orleans (1 & 2) 2007-02-12 10 Sister Aimee 2007-04-02 11 Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple 2007-04-09 12 Summer of Love 2007-04-23 13 The Mormons (1): History 2007-04-30 14 The Mormons (2): Church and State 2007-05-01 15 Alexander Hamilton 2007-05-14

Season 20 Season 20 14 ep

1 Oswald's Ghost 2008-01-14 2 The Lobotomist 2008-01-21 3 Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies 2008-02-03 4 Grand Central 2008-02-04 5 Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land 2008-02-10 6 Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law? 2008-02-17 7 Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement 2008-02-24 8 Kit Carson 2008-02-18 9 Buffalo Bill 2008-02-25 10 Minik: The Lost Eskimo 2009-03-31 11 Walt Whitman 2008-04-14 12 Roberto Clemente 2008-04-21 13 George H.W. Bush (1) 2008-05-05 14 George H.W. Bush (2) 2008-05-06

Season 21 Season 21 9 ep

1 The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer 2009-01-26 2 The Polio Crusade 2009-02-02 3 The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 2009-02-09 4 A Class Apart 2009-02-23 5 We Shall Remain (1): After the Mayflower 2009-04-13 6 We Shall Remain (2): Tecumseh's Vision 2009-04-20 7 We Shall Remain (3): Trail of Tears 2009-04-27 8 We Shall Remain (4): Geronimo 2009-05-04 9 We Shall Remain (5): Wounded Knee 2009-05-11

Season 22 Season 22 8 ep

1 The Civilian Conservation Corps 2009-11-02 2 Wyatt Earp 2010-01-25 3 The Bombing of Germany 2010-02-08 4 Dolley Madison 2010-03-01 5 Earth Days 2010-04-19 6 My Lai 2010-04-26 7 Roads to Memphis 2010-05-03 8 Into the Deep: America, Whaling and the World 2010-05-10

Season 23 Season 23 12 ep

1 God in America (Parts 1–2) 2010-10-11 2 God in America (Parts 3-4) 2010-10-12 3 God in America (Parts 5-6) 2010-10-13 4 Robert E. Lee 2011-01-03 5 Dinosaur Wars 2011-01-17 6 Panama Canal 2011-01-24 7 The Greely Expedition 2011-01-31 8 Triangle Fire 2011-02-28 9 The Great Famine 2011-04-11 10 Stonewall Uprising 2011-04-25 11 Soundtrack for a Revolution 2011-05-09 12 Freedom Riders 2011-05-16

Season 24 Season 24 8 ep

1 Billy the Kid 2012-01-10 2 Custer's Last Stand 2012-01-17 3 Clinton: The Comeback Kid (1) 2012-02-20 4 Clinton: The Survivor (2) 2012-02-21 5 The Amish 2012-02-28 6 Grand Coulee Dam 2012-04-03 7 Jesse Owens 2012-05-01 8 Death and the Civil War 2012-09-18

Season 25 Season 25 8 ep

1 The Abolitionists: 1820s-1838 2013-01-08 2 The Abolitionists: 1838-1854 2013-01-15 3 The Abolitionists: 1854-Emancipation and Victory 2013-01-22 4 Henry Ford 2013-01-29 5 Silicon Valley 2013-02-05 6 War of the Worlds 2013-10-29 7 JFK (Part 1) 2013-11-11 8 JFK (Part 2) 2013-11-12

Season 26 Season 26 7 ep

1 The Poisoner's Handbook 2014-01-07 2 1964 2014-01-14 3 The Amish: Shunned 2014-02-04 4 Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid 2014-02-11 5 The Rise and Fall of Penn Station 2014-02-18 6 Freedom Summer 2014-06-24 7 Cold War Roadshow 2014-11-18

Season 27 Season 27 11 ep

1 Ripley: Believe It or Not 2015-01-06 2 Klansville, USA 2015-01-13 3 Edison 2015-01-27 4 The Big Burn 2015-02-03 5 The Forgotten Plague 2015-02-10 6 Last Days In Vietnam 2015-04-28 7 Blackout 2015-07-14 8 Walt Disney (1) 2015-09-14 9 Walt Disney (2) 2015-09-15 10 American Comandante 2015-11-17 11 The Pilgrims 2015-11-24

Season 28 Season 28 8 ep

1 Bonnie & Clyde 2016-01-19 2 The Mine Wars 2016-01-26 3 Murder of a President 2016-02-02 4 The Perfect Crime 2016-02-09 5 Space Men 2016-03-01 6 The Boys of '36 2016-08-02 7 Tesla 2016-10-18 8 The Battle of Chosin 2016-11-01

Season 29 Season 29 8 ep

1 Command and Control 2017-01-10 2 Rachel Carson 2017-01-24 3 The Race Underground 2017-01-31 4 Oklahoma City 2017-02-07 5 Ruby Ridge 2017-02-14 6 The Great War: Part 1 2017-04-10 7 The Great War: Part 2 2017-04-11 8 The Great War: Part 3 2017-04-12

Season 30 Season 30 9 ep

1 Into the Amazon 2018-01-09 2 The Secret of Tuxedo Park 2018-01-16 3 The Gilded Age 2018-02-06 4 The Bombing of Wall Street 2018-02-13 5 The Island Murder 2018-04-17 6 The Chinese Exclusion Act 2018-05-29 7 The Circus (1) 2018-10-08 8 The Circus (2) 2018-10-09 9 The Eugenics Crusade 2018-10-16

Season 31 Season 31 7 ep

1 The Swamp 2019-01-15 2 Sealab 2019-02-12 3 Chasing the Moon - A Place Beyond the Sky 2019-07-08 4 Chasing the Moon - Earthrise 2019-07-09 5 Chasing the Moon - Magnificent Desolation 2019-07-10 6 Woodstock 2019-08-06 7 The Feud 2019-09-10

Season 32 Season 32 8 ep

1 McCarthy 2020-01-06 2 The Poison Squad 2020-01-28 3 The Man Who Tried to Feed The World 2020-04-21 4 George W. Bush (Part 1) 2020-05-04 5 George W. Bush (Part 2) 2020-05-05 6 Mr. Tornado 2020-05-19 7 The Vote (Part 1) 2020-07-06 8 The Vote (Part 2) 2020-07-07

Season 33 Season 33 8 ep

1 The Codebreaker 2021-01-11 2 Voice of Freedom 2021-02-15 3 The Blinding of Isaac Woodard 2021-03-30 4 American Oz 2021-04-19 5 Billy Graham 2021-05-17 6 Sandra Day O'Connor: The First 2021-09-13 7 Citizen Hearst (1) 2021-09-27 8 Citizen Hearst (2) 2021-09-28

Season 34 Season 34 6 ep

1 Riveted: The History of Jeans 2022-02-07 2 The American Diplomat 2022-02-15 3 Flood in the Desert 2022-05-03 4 Plague at the Golden Gate 2022-05-24 5 Taken Hostage (1) 2022-11-14 6 Taken Hostage (2) 2022-11-15

Season 35 Season 35 9 ep

1 The Lie Detector 2023-01-03 2 Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space 2023-01-17 3 Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History 2023-02-20 4 The Movement and the "Madman" 2023-03-28 5 The Sun Queen 2023-04-04 6 Casa Susanna 2023-06-27 7 The Busing Battleground 2023-09-11 8 The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools 2023-09-12 9 The War on Disco 2023-10-30

Season 36 Season 36 7 ep

1 Nazi Town, USA 2024-01-23 2 Fly With Me 2024-02-20 3 The Cancer Detectives 2024-03-26 4 Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal 2024-04-22 5 The Riot Report 2024-05-21 6 The American Vice President 2024-10-01 7 American Coup: Wilmington 1898 2024-11-12

Season 37 Season 37 8 ep

1 Forgotten Hero: Walter White and The NAACP 2025-02-24 2 Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act 2025-03-24 3 Mr. Polaroid 2025-03-31 4 Clearing the Air: The War on Smog 2025-08-26 5 Hard Hat Riot 2025-09-30 6 Kissinger (1): The Necessity of Power 2025-10-27 7 Kissinger (2): The Opportunist 2025-10-28 8 Bombshell 2026-01-06

Season 38 Season 38 1 ep

1 Bombshell 2026-01-06