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American Experience
Airs: Mondays at 9pm on WGBH 2
Associate with America’s most respected history series
Television’s most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America’s past and present.
Sample Programs
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life and legacy are inextricably linked to America’s most famous top-secret initiative — the Manhattan Project. But after World War II, this brilliant and intense scientist, tasked with the development of the atomic bomb and widely considered one of the most important minds of the 20th century, fell from the innermost circles of American science. This biography presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of America’s most influential scientists.
The Death of Lincoln
On March 4, 1865, at the United States Capitol, a crowd of 50,000 listened as President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a station in Washington, DC. This film recounts a great American drama: two tumultuous months when the joy of peace was shattered by the heartache of assassination.
The Polio Crusade
It was the largest public health experiment in American history — a crusade that eradicated polio, one of the 20th century’s most dreaded diseases. This film chronicles a decades-long crusade, fueled by the bold leadership of a single philanthropy and its innovative public relations campaign, and features a bitter battle between two scientists and the breakthrough of a now-forgotten woman researcher.
We Shall Remain
This five-part series establishes Native history as an essential part of American history, telling five heartbreaking yet inspiring stories that highlight Native ingenuity and resilience over the course of 300 years. Beginning in the 1600s with the Wampanoags, who used their alliance with the English to weaken rival tribes, and ending in the 1970s with the bold new leaders who harnessed the momentum of the civil rights movement to forge a pan-Indian identity, the series upends two-dimensional stereotypes of American Indians simply as ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land.
Television’s most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America’s past and present.
Sample Programs
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life and legacy are inextricably linked to America’s most famous top-secret initiative — the Manhattan Project. But after World War II, this brilliant and intense scientist, tasked with the development of the atomic bomb and widely considered one of the most important minds of the 20th century, fell from the innermost circles of American science. This biography presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of America’s most influential scientists.
The Death of Lincoln
On March 4, 1865, at the United States Capitol, a crowd of 50,000 listened as President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a station in Washington, DC. This film recounts a great American drama: two tumultuous months when the joy of peace was shattered by the heartache of assassination.
The Polio Crusade
It was the largest public health experiment in American history — a crusade that eradicated polio, one of the 20th century’s most dreaded diseases. This film chronicles a decades-long crusade, fueled by the bold leadership of a single philanthropy and its innovative public relations campaign, and features a bitter battle between two scientists and the breakthrough of a now-forgotten woman researcher.
We Shall Remain
This five-part series establishes Native history as an essential part of American history, telling five heartbreaking yet inspiring stories that highlight Native ingenuity and resilience over the course of 300 years. Beginning in the 1600s with the Wampanoags, who used their alliance with the English to weaken rival tribes, and ending in the 1970s with the bold new leaders who harnessed the momentum of the civil rights movement to forge a pan-Indian identity, the series upends two-dimensional stereotypes of American Indians simply as ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land.
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