January 14, 2008 • 55m
Few Americans then or now accept that a lone, inconsequential gunman could bring down a president and alter history. In that breac...Read more
January 21, 2008 • 55m
In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally i...Read more
February 3, 2008 • 55m
After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the civil rights movement: the insistent call for power. Malcolm X ta...Read more
February 4, 2008 • 55m
A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd Street that forever changed midtown Manhattan.
February 10, 2008 • 55m
The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes wins election as the f...Read more
February 17, 2008 • 55m
A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize black America. World heavyweight champion Cassius Clay challenges America t...Read more
February 24, 2008 • 55m
In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. In Boston, ...Read more
February 18, 2008 • 55m
An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native American women, ye...Read more
February 25, 2008 • 55m
In 1886, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show played to over one million people in New York City. It was one of the most elaborate shows ...Read more
March 31, 2009 • 55m
In 1897, renowned Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to New York from his latest Greenland expedition. At the request of anthro...Read more
April 14, 2008 • 55m
This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper ...Read more
April 21, 2008 • 55m
Roberto Clemente is an in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimina...Read more
May 5, 2008 • 55m
When George. H.W. Bush left the Oval Office in 1992, rejected after one tumultuous presidential term, his 30-year career in public...Read more
May 6, 2008 • 55m
George H.W. Bush presents the first in-depth assessment of the 41st president of the United States, drawing upon unparalleled acce...Read more