American Experience
Date de parution : 4 octobre 1988
 | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Radio Bikini The story of atomic bomb research after World War II and how above-ground testing led to the evacuation of a previously-populated atoll in the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo The US government attempts to claim lands that have value from Native American dwellers. |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Not So Wild a Dream Mid 20th century America through the eyes of famous journalist Eric Sevareid. |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter A treatment of women's contributions to the World War II defense industry including interviews with women who participated. |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys? A visit to working ranches in western Wyoming to examine the lifestyle of modern-day cowboys and compare it to the romantic historical notions. |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 7 | Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up-Close John Kennedy and George Wallace clash over questions of civil rights in early 1960s Alabama. |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 8 | Geronimo and the Apache Resistance Account of the famous Native American leader's battle against the US in the American southwest from the viewpoints of historians and modern Apaches. |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 9 | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited Life on Alabama tenant farms in the 1930s with comparisons to the living situation today. |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 10 | That Rhythm, Those Blues The growth of rhythm and blues music and its eventual acceptance by mainstream audiences in the 1950s. |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 11 | The Radio Priest A Catholic priest (Charles Coughlin) takes to the radio airwaves in the 1930s and broadcasts his views on the condition of the country. |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 12 | Hearts and Hands An examination of the women of 19th century America - as suffragists, abolitionists, authors - and the record they and many others left through... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 13 | Views of a Vanishing Frontier A German prince and a Swiss painter interpret the United States in a new light during a visit to the American west during the 1830s. |
| Saison 1 - épisode 14 | Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings The work of photographer and author Eudora Welty and her impressions of the south after the turn of the 20th century. | |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 15 | The World That Moses Built A biography of Robert Moses, single-minded visionary behind many of New York City's largest and most expensive construction projects. |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 16 | Sins of Our Mothers A tale of a woman in the 1800s who risked scorn by marrying a man much younger than herself, and a person later found to be her biological son from... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 1 | The Great Air Race of 1924 Early American aviators try to cross the planet with primitive planes of limited range and under harsh conditions. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Demon Rum The story of how prohibition went from local preferences to national law, with specific reference to its application in Detroit, MI. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 3 | A Family Gathering An examination of a the story of a Japanese family in America from their arrival in the US to the days of suspicion during World War II. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 4 | Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice The work of a notable civil rights crusader in the late 19th and early 20th century. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 5 | The Great War: 1918 America enters the fighting in what is now called World War I. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 6 | Forever Baseball A nostalgic treatment of the national pastime and its meaning in history. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 7 | Adam Clayton Powell Documentary on the life of civil rights advocate Powell, including his career as a Harlem minister and a US Congressman. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 8 | Mr. Sears' Catalogue The story behind the mail order tome that brought merchandise (or dreams of it) within reach of Americans far and wide. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 9 | Battle for Wilderness A profile of an early environmental dispute over the construction of a dam in California after the earthquake of 1906. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 10 | Ballad of a Mountain Man Story of a folklore historian who sought to preserve the traditional music of the Appalachians for posterity. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 11 | Forbidden City, USA The Americanization of Chinese people in the 1920s and 30s, including public roles that ran counter to their cultural history. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 12 | Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil Oil exploration and the fortunes and failures of the independent opportunists who searched for it. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 13 | Roots of Resistance: A Story of the Underground Railroad A chronicle of the organized efforts to help slaves find freedom in the north. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 14 | Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven The story of Yosemite told through the diary of one of the first white Americans to visit the California valley. |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 15 | God Bless America and Poland, Too Episode focusing on Polish immigration in the 1910s and the contributions of Poles to the United States. |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 1 | Lindbergh After his famous flight, Charles Lindbergh becomes known to all the world but struggles with life in the limelight. |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 2 | Nixon (1): The Quest Chronicle of the 37th President - from his earliest ambitions to his innovative foreign policy and paranoia of perceived rivals. |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 3 | Nixon (2): Triumph Chronicle of the 37th President - from his earliest ambitions to his innovative foreign policy and paranoia of perceived rivals. |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Nixon (3): The Fall Chronicle of the 37th President - from his earliest ambitions to his innovative foreign policy and paranoia of perceived rivals. |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 5 | The Crash of 1929 The unbounded optimism of the Jazz Age and the shocking consequences when reality finally hit on October 29th, ultimately leading to the Great... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 6 | The Iron Road America is spanned when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific join track and enable a railroad system that is truly transcontinental. |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 7 | The Satellite Sky The story behind orbiting satellites, the "space race," and the proliferation and uses of man-made satellites. |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 8 | Insanity on Trial The trial of Charles Guiteau, a seeming madman who killed President James Garfield. |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 9 | After the Crash After the stock market crashed in 1929, thousands suffered unemployment and poverty in the Great Depression. The most desperate year, 1932, brought... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 10 | Los Mineros A story of Mexican-American workers in early 20th century copper mines in the southwest. |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 11 | Coney Island A history of the three major amusement parks that made Coney Island one of America's favorite recreational diversions in the early to mid 20th... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 12 | Journey to America Documentary on the great influx of immigrants between 1890 and the 1920s. |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 13 | Orphans of the Storm A tale of British children sent to North America during the early World War II bombing of London. |
| Saison 3 - épisode 14 | Love in the Cold War The story of Eugene Dennis and his wife Peggy, communist activists in the post-World War II era. | |
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 | Saison 4 - épisode 5 | LBJ (1) LBJ's career started in 1938 when he was elected a congressman, one of the youngest ever. He was elected to the Senate in 1948 under a cloud of... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 6 | LBJ (2) Lyndon Johnson's ascension to the Presidency and the controversial events of his tenure such as the Great Society and the Vietnam War are chronicled... |
| Saison 4 - épisode 7 | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry A story of the formation and service of the first all-Black military unit in the United States during the Civil War. | |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 8 | Barnum's Big Top P.T. Barnum launches a scheme to bring entertainment and marvels to the country - something that one day becomes "The Greatest Show on Earth." |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 9 | Scandalous Mayor The story of the corrupt political dominance of Mayor James Curley and its effect on the city of Boston in the early 20th century. |
| Saison 4 - épisode 10 | Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance Recounting the historic attack of 1941, including the planning and military outlook of both the United States and Japan at the time. | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 11 | G-Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover The rise of the FBI from a minor government bureaucracy to the premiere law enforcement agency in the world under the controversial leadership of J.... | |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 12 | Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo Biography of the famed jazz composer and pianist, including rare footage of his performances. |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 13 | The Quiz Show Scandal Behind-the-scenes examination of the quiz show craze of the 1950s and how the outcomes of these television shows came to be fixed. |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 14 | Love In The Cold War Eugene and Peggy Dennis were Communist activists during the years following World War II. Their story is told here. |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 15 | Wild by Law The modern movement to preserve natural wilderness in the United States. |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 16 | In the White Man's Image Documentary on the late 19th/early 20th century educational effort to teach Native Americans to adopt western cultural ways and abandon their own... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 1 | The Kennedys (1) The life of Kennedy patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy is the subject of this episode. |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 2 | The Kennedys (2) For the three Kennedy sons (John, Robert, Ted) it was the story of triumph followed by tragedy. Their political careers from 1961-80 are detailed in... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 3 | The Donner Party Tragic tale of families attempting a short-cut passage to California in the 1840s, with narration of their life-and-death struggle taken from their... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 4 | The Johnstown Flood Documentary of the 1889 disaster caused by a broken dam. |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 5 | Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II They were African-American soldiers. They were inducted into a rigidly segregated army. They trained in white America. Their commanders never... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 6 | George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King The life and achievements of Washington - as a British colonist, American general, and first President of the United States. |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 7 | Last Stand at Little Big Horn The historic battle discussed from the perspective of both sides that participated in the conflict. |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 8 | Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian The last member of a diminished Native American tribe from California makes himself known at the beginning of the 20th century. |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 9 | If You Knew Sousa The story of "march king" John Philip Sousa and the connections between his music and the mood of the nation during his time. |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 10 | Simple Justice Growing resistance to segregation, the Supreme Court decision to end it, and the life of Thurgood Marshall. |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 11 | Sit Down and Fight The story of Walter Reuther and the struggle to unionize the automobile workers of the US in the 1930s. |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 12 | Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish The short but notable career of the coach and his team with stories from some of those who remember him. |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 13 | Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Her 1963 warnings about the effects of pesticides and herbicides - especially DDT - sparked a revolution in environmental policy and created a new... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 14 | French Dance Tonight The distinctive music of Louisiana including Cajun and Zydeco performances. |
| Saison 5 - épisode 15 | Goin' Back to T-Town A profile of the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma - once a flourishing but segregated community. | |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 1 | Ike (1): Soldier Part 1 chronicles Eisenhower's childhood, education at West Point and military career, culminating in his service as Supreme Allied Commander in... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 2 | Ike (2): Statesman Part 2 follows Eisenhower's election to the presidency and two terms in the White House, as well as his retirement. |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 3 | Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage The life and risks taken by the famous woman aviator. |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 4 | The Hunt for Pancho Villa "Black Jack" Pershing pursues the famed outlaw into Mexico, with little success. |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 5 | Malcolm X: Make It Plain Story of the controversial Malcolm X, his early years, his connection to the Nation of Islam, and his legacy. |
| Saison 6 - épisode 6 | Out of Ireland The causes and effects of one of the largest waves of immigration to impact American history. | |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 7 | D-Day Remembered Archival footage and the voices of people who participated provide a unique perspective on the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy. |
| Saison 6 - épisode 8 | America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference America's reaction to the plight of European Jews both immediately before and during World War II. | |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 1 | FDR (1): The Center of the World (1882-1921) This first episode looks at the early life of FDR. Born into a wealthy family, there was little about his youth that would suggest the giant of... |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 2 | FDR (2): Fear Itself (1922-1933) In this second episode, the subject is FDR's courageous fight with polio. With his wife Eleanor Roosevelt at his side, FDR, wins the Democratic... |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 3 | FDR (3): The Grandest Job in the World (1933-1940) In episode three, the subject is FDR's leadership of America during the Great Depression. The nation turned to this son of great wealth for a host... |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 4 | FDR (4): The Juggler (1940-1945) In this last episode, the story turns to the war years. The days leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War II... |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 5 | Telegrams from the Dead A program that examines America's fascination with spiritualism and the occult in the second half of the 1800s. |
| Saison 7 - épisode 6 | Midnight Ramble Oscar Micheaux and the History of Race. Oscar Micheaux wrote, produced and directed over 40 movies and despite this was really not known because he... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 7 | Battle of the Bulge American forces moving toward Germany to end the war are opposed by a deadly counter-offensive that leads to a great loss of life. | |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 8 | Freedom on My MInd An account of the struggle to register African Americans to vote in the state of Mississippi in the 1960s. |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 9 | Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern A story of the realities leading to the vanishing role of the family farm in the United States. |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 10 | One Woman, One Vote (1) The struggle of the women's movement and the 19th Amendment that finally extended national suffrage to women. |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 11 | One Woman, One Vote (2) The struggle of the women's movement and the 19th Amendment that finally extended national suffrage to women. |
| Saison 7 - épisode 12 | America's War on Poverty The programs devised to help the American underclass in the 1960s and their successes and failures. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 13 | The Way West (1): Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1845-1864) The westward expansion of the United States and the re-shaping of the destiny of white and native people - from the Gold Rush to Wounded Knee. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 14 | The Way West (2): The Approach of Civilization (1865-1869) The westward expansion of the United States and the re-shaping of the destiny of white and native people - from the Gold Rush to Wounded Knee. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 15 | The Way West (3): The War for the Black Hills (1870-1876) The westward expansion of the United States and the re-shaping of the destiny of white and native people - from the Gold Rush to Wounded Knee. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 16 | The Way West (4): Ghost Dance (1877-1893) Chronicles the crackdown on Native American tribes across the Northwest in the aftermath of the Battle of the Little Big Horn in June 1876, and... | |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 1 | Murder of the Century The nation is fascinated by the high-profile murder of a famous architect, apparently because of jealousy over a popular female stage performer. |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 2 | Edison's Miracle of Light Inventor Thomas A. Edison experiments with electricity, long-burning filaments, and glass bulbs to give America an alternative to gas lights. |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 3 | Chicago 1968 The nation watches a political convention that in many ways is a symbol of the turbulent times in which it was held. |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 4 | The Orphan Trains The story of orphaned inner-city children shipped to rural locations and new lives as part of a social engineering experiment. |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 5 | Daley: The Last Boss Biography of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, considered one of the last major heads of big city "machine" politics in the United States. |
| Saison 8 - épisode 6 | The Battle Over Citizen Kane Orson Welles' movie stirs the ire of publisher William Randolph Hearst, the man who the film was patterned after. | |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 7 | The Wright Stuff The story of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the earliest days of aviation. |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 8 | Spy in the Sky The Cold War forces the United States to build very high altitude U2 planes to record photographs of opposing nations. |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 1 | T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (1): The Long Campaign The colorful life of Teddy Roosevelt, from frail youth to larger-than-life persona. |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 2 | T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (2): The Bully Pulpit The colorful life of Teddy Roosevelt, from frail youth to larger-than-life persona. |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 3 | T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (3): The Good Fight The colorful life of Teddy Roosevelt, from frail youth to larger-than-life persona. |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 4 | T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (4): Black Care The colorful life of Teddy Roosevelt, from frail youth to larger-than-life persona. |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 5 | The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie A chronicle of the rise of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, his steel empire, and his philanthropy. |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 6 | Hawaii's Last Queen In 1893, the last sovereign ruler of Hawaii is removed by forces that want the islands to come under the official jurisdiction of the United States. |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 7 | The Telephone The debut of the telephone in 1876 and its subsequent impact on American communication, and even, America's landscape. |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 8 | Big Dream, Small Screen How Philo Farnsworth combined his work with other emerging technologies to contribute to the development of television. |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 9 | New York Underground Chronicle of the construction of the New York subway and its dramatic impact on the city. |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 10 | Around the World in 72 Days Groundbreaking New York reporter Nellie Bly uses all manner of transportation to beat the fictional feat of Verne's Phileas Fogg. |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 11 | Gold Fever The story of the last great gold rush in North America, the search in the Yukon and Klondike at the end of the 19th century. |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 1 | Truman (1): An Accident of Democracy Challenges and triumphs of an unassuming midwesterner who was thrust into the role of national leader. |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 2 | Truman (2): The Moon, the Stars and All the Planets Challenges and triumphs of an unassuming midwesterner who was thrust into the role of national leader. |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 3 | Truman (3): Hell Challenges and triumphs of an unassuming midwesterner who was thrust into the role of national leader. |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 4 | Vietnam: A Television History (1): The First Vietnam War (1946-1954) This program traces the rise of a pro-American Vietnamese nationalist, Ho Chi Minh, whose Viet Minh guerrillas grab a stunning victory over French... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 5 | Vietnam: A Television History (2): America's Mandarin The United States is drawn into Vietnam through its support − then abandonment − of South Vietnam's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, who is assassinated in... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 6 | Vietnam: A Television History (3): LBJ Goes to War Charging that North Vietnam has attacked American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, President Lyndon B. Johnson orders bombing raids and sends 200,000... |
| Saison 10 - épisode 7 | Vietnam: A Television History (4): America Takes Charge With the South Vietnamese army in disarray, the U.S. military assumes control of the war, leading to increased American casualties in a country both... | |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 8 | Vietnam: A Television History (5): America's Enemy The war Americans seldom saw: the view from North Vietnam, featuring the perspectives of communist leaders, Vietcong guerrillas and American... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 9 | Vietnam: A Television History (6): Tet 1968 North Vietnam's dramatic offensive on the lunar New Year stuns American military and political leaders, leading to calls for the withdrawal of U.S.... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 10 | Vietnam: A Television History (7): Vietnamizing the War As the U.S. turns over the war to the South Vietnamese army, American soldiers and Vietnamese citizens feel the dimming prospects for victory. An... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 11 | Vietnam: A Television History (8): Cambodia and Laos With fighting already spread to neighboring Laos, President Richard Nixon orders a secret bombing campaign against Cambodia, which will soon endure... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 12 | Vietnam: A Television History (9): Peace Is at Hand As President Nixon escalates the bombing of Hanoi and North Vietnamese troops advance, negotiators struggle for four years to sign a peace treaty... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 13 | Vietnam: A Television History (10): Homefront USA Americans at home divide over a distant war, clashing in the streets as demonstrations lead to bloodshed, bitterness and increasing doubts. An... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 14 | Vietnam: A Television History (11): The End of the Tunnel Ten years after American ground troops arrived in South Vietnam, communists seize Saigon in a lightning attack that brings the war to a startling... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 15 | A Midwife's Tale The life of a midwife living in Maine during the late 18th century, based on the journals of Martha Ballard and the research of a modern-day author. |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 16 | Mr. Miami Beach Documentary of Carl Graham Fisher, an opportunist who saw potential for tourism in the swamp lands of Florida. |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 17 | Influenza 1918 The worst epidemic in American history killed over 600,000 Americans during World War I. Nicknamed "Spanish influenza," it died out quickly the... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 18 | Reagan (1): Lifeguard The career of Ronald Reagan, from his movie career to his growing interest in politics. |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 19 | Reagan (2): An American Crusade The career of Ronald Reagan, from his movie career to his growing interest in politics. |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 20 | Surviving the Dust Bowl The story of the farmers who came to the Southern Plains of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas dreaming of prosperity, and lived through ten years of... |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 1 | America 1900 (1): Spirit of the Age An overview of life in the United States at the dawn of the 20th century − unforeseen opportunities and unplanned-for challenges. |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 2 | America 1900 (2): Change Is in the Air An overview of life in the United States at the dawn of the 20th century − unforeseen opportunities and unplanned-for challenges. |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 3 | America 1900 (3): A Great Civilized Power An overview of life in the United States at the dawn of the 20th century − unforeseen opportunities and unplanned-for challenges. |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 4 | America 1900 (4): Anything Seemed Possible An overview of life in the United States at the dawn of the 20th century − unforeseen opportunities and unplanned-for challenges. |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 5 | Race for the Super Bomb The United States and the Soviet Union work on weapons even more powerful than the earlier atomic bomb during the height of the Cold War. |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 6 | Hoover Dam The story behind building one of the greatest Depression-era projects, the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 7 | Alone on the Ice An account of Robert Byrd's adventures at the poles and his trials in Antarctica. |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 8 | Rescue at Sea The collision of two large ocean-going vessels in 1909 puts the new wireless telegraph to the test. |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 9 | Meltdown at Three Mile Island An account of the causes of the partial core meltdown at the Pennsylvania nuclear power plant in 1979 and the reactions of staff and the public. |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 10 | Lost in the Grand Canyon Geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell undertakes a dangerous water trip down the Colorado River with a crew of adventure-seekers. |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 11 | Riding the Rails The subculture of young hobos that sprang up during the Great Depression. |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 12 | Fly Girls The lives of the Women Air Service Pilots (WASPs) and their flying exploits within the US during World War II. |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 13 | MacArthur (1): Destiny Part 1 of a two-part biography of Douglas MacArthur takes "America's first soldier" from his brilliant WWI service into WWII, when his knack for... |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 14 | MacArthur (2): The Politics of War The conclusion of MacArthur focuses on his "return" to the Philippines in 1944, his years as Supreme Allied Commander in Japan after the war and his... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 1 | New York (1): The Country and the City 1609-1825 The series begins by identifying the key themes that shaped New York's history: commerce and capitalism, diversity and democracy, transformation and... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 2 | New York (2): Order and Disorder 1825-1865 Already established as America's premier port, New York City swelled into the nation's greatest industrial metropolis as a massive wave of German... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 3 | New York (3): Sunshine and Shadow 1865-1898 Now the spotlight shines on the growth, glamour and grief of New York during America's giddy postwar "Gilded Age." Exploring the incomparable wealth... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 4 | New York (4): The Power and the People 1898-1918 As New York spilled into the new century, the extraordinary interplay of capitalism, democracy and transformation surged to a climax. During a... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 5 | New York (5): Cosmopolis 1919-1931 In this short but dazzling period, New York became the focal point of an extraordinary array of human and cultural energies, reaching its highest... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 6 | Eleanor Roosevelt Biography of the wife of FDR, her early life, marriage, and rise to the position of one of the most influential and respected women of the 20th... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 7 | Nixon's China Game Nixon and Kissinger decide to engage China as leverage in the Cold War. |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 8 | Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory Traveling singers from an all-Black school tour the north and overseas in the decade after the Civil War. |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 9 | The Duel The background and aftermath of the 1804 conflict between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 10 | John Brown's Holy War Rise and fall of the volatile and sometimes violent abolitionist. |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 11 | Houdini The story of the famed magician and incomparable escape artist. |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 12 | George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (1) The tumultuous career of the controversial politician from Alabama. |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 13 | George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (2) The tumultuous career of the controversial politician from Alabama. |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 14 | Joe DiMaggio: A Hero's Life The life of the "Yankee Clipper," from his humble beginnings as the son of an Italian-American fisherman in California to his world-wide acclaim. |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 15 | George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography The story of the innovations that made photography affordable and easy enough for any American to enjoy. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 1 | The Rockefellers (1) Biography of the family through four generations and their changing ideas on the use of money and power in America. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 2 | The Rockefellers (2) Continuation of the biography of one of America's wealthiest and most influential families. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 3 | Secrets of a Master Builder The contributions of James B. Eads in understanding and altering the great Mississippi River during the second half of the 19th century. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 4 | Return with Honor An account of American P.O.W.s in Vietnam and their return to life in the United States. |
| Saison 13 - épisode 5 | The Hurricane of '38 Story of a massive storm that unexpectedly gained strength as it worked its way up the eastern seaboard and the 300 million dollars of damage it... | |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 6 | Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind The story of Marcus Garvey, his ideas for Black re-settlement in Liberia, and his controversial ideas on race relations. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 7 | Abraham And Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (1): Ambition The story of the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's childhoods and their courtship is told. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 8 | Abraham And Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (2): We Are Elected Sheds light on the Lincoln marriage during Abraham's time in Congress and his run for president. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 9 | Abraham And Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (3): Shattered The Lincolns arrive in Washington with Abraham's ability to lead in question. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 10 | Abraham And Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (4): The Dearest of All Things Mary struggles with personal grief, as Abraham Lincoln becomes consumed with the nation's tragedy. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 11 | Abraham And Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (5): The Frightful War While criticism of Abraham Lincoln increases during the Civil War, Mary Lincoln plunges into debt. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 12 | Abraham And Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (6): Blind with Weeping Focuses on the battle of Gettysburg, the surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 13 | Scottsboro: An American Tragedy False allegations of rape taint the record of justice in Alabama during the early 1930s. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 14 | Fatal Flood A story of the flooding of the Mississippi River in 1927 and how it exposed social and racial problems beyond the natural disaster itself. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 15 | Stephen Foster Chronicle of the short life of one of America's first nationally-recognized songwriters. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 16 | Streamliners: America's Lost Trains Chronicle of the short epoch when sleek passenger trains dominated American transportation. |
| Saison 13 - épisode 17 | The Rockefellers (3) | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 18 | The Rockefellers (4) | |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 1 | New York (6): The City of Tomorrow 1929-1941 In little more than ten years, immense new forces were unleashed in New York, from the Depression itself to the New Deal, which permanently altered... |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 2 | New York (7): The City and the World 1945-2000 In exploring the social, economic and physical forces that swept through the city in the post-war period, Episode Seven examines the great... |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 3 | War Letters An episode that focuses on the letters that passed between soldiers and those at home during American history. |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 4 | Woodrow Wilson (1): A Passionate Man The contributions of a history professor and college administrator to the American presidency in the first part of the 20th century. |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 5 | Woodrow Wilson (2): The Redemption of the World The contributions of a history professor and college administrator to the American presidency in the first part of the 20th century. |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 6 | Mount Rushmore The grand vision of sculptor Gutzon Borgum and the logistics behind the massive monument located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 7 | Miss America The growth of the famed beauty contest from a small promotional event for late-season tourism to a national phenomenon. |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 8 | Public Enemy #1 The career and violent death of bank robber John Dillinger and the role of the FBI in finally stopping him. |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 9 | Monkey Trial Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan square-off in a battle of rhetoric and legal manuevers over the teaching of evolution in Tennessee. |
| Saison 14 - épisode 10 | Zoot Suit Riots Racial tensions in 1942 Los Angeles resulting from conflicts between young Mexican-American men and off-duty sailors. | |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 11 | Ulysses S. Grant (1): The Warrior The military career and troubled administration of the 15th President of the United States. |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 12 | Ulysses S. Grant (2): The President The military career and troubled administration of the 15th President of the United States. |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 13 | Ansel Adams From the day that a 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and... |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 14 | A Brilliant Madness Story of the life of MIT mathematician John Nash - from exceptional theory to struggles with mental illness. |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 1 | Jimmy Carter (1): Jimmy Who? The story of the Georgia governor who won the presidency and the numerous challenges that plagued his administration. |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 2 | Jimmy Carter (2): Hostage The story of the Georgia governor who won the presidency and the numerous challenges that plagued his administration. |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 3 | Chicago: City of the Century (1): Mudhole to Metropolis City of the Century chronicles Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town of fur traders and Native Americans to a massive... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 4 | Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun City of the Century chronicles Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town of fur traders and Native Americans to a massive... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 5 | Chicago: City of the Century (3): Battle for Chicago City of the Century chronicles Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town of fur traders and Native Americans to a massive... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 6 | Transcontinental Railroad The combination of ambition, money, and power that led to the completion of the famous railway that spanned America's west. |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 7 | Partners of the Heart A tale of the partnership between a white doctor and a young African-American in pioneering cardiac surgical procedures during the World War II era. |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 8 | The Pill The discoveries that led to the birth control pill and its subsequent impact on American women. |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 9 | Daughter from Danang The story of the daughter of a Vietnamese woman and an American naval officer as she grows up in the United States. |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 10 | Bataan Rescue The daring rescue by US Army Rangers of American POWs captured on Bataan as World War II came to a close. |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 11 | Murder at Harvard A modern re-creation of the possible events behind the sensational murder of Dr. George Parkman in 1849 Boston. |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 12 | Seabiscuit He was boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn't completely straighten, a short straggly tail and an ungainly gait, but though he didn't look the part,... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 13 | The Murder of Emmett Till %In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago,... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 1 | New York (8): The Center of the World The eighth episode of filmmaker Ric Burns' award-winning series New York: A Documentary Film examines the rise and fall of the World Trade Center --... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 2 | Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (1): Revolution The long road to recovery after the Civil War, as the south seeks to establish a society separate from its African American citizens. |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 3 | Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2): Retreat The long road to recovery after the Civil War, as the south seeks to establish a society separate from its African American citizens. |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 4 | Citizen King Contemporaries of Martin Luther King reflect on the later years of his life. |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 5 | Remember the Alamo Residents of Tejas (Texas) fight for independence from Mexico, only to face annexation by the United States soon after. |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 6 | Tupperware! The invention of the plastic containers and the story of Brownie Wise, the woman who realized how to market them. |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 7 | Emma Goldman Story of the Russian immigrant who was deemed so radical and subversive that she was persecuted and deported by the US government. |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 8 | Patriots Day A study of modern-day Americans who re-enact the opening skirmish of the Revolutionary War each year. |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 9 | Golden Gate Bridge The struggle of Joseph Strauss to spearhead the construction of the amazing bridge so important to San Francisco today. |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 1 | RFK (1): The Garish Sun Robert Kennedy's career in public service, his work in his brother's administration, and his presidential aspirations at the time of his... |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 2 | RFK (2): The Awful Grace of God Robert Kennedy's career in public service, his work in his brother's administration, and his presidential aspirations at the time of his... |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 3 | The Fight The 1938 fight between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and the political and social ideologies the world thought were represented by the boxers. |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 4 | Fidel Castro The rise of communist rule in Cuba and Castro's long era of leadership. |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 5 | Building the Alaskan Highway Worries over a possible Japanese invasion of Alaska prompt the construction of a road to connect the territory to the 48 states. |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 6 | Kinsey The startling and controversial findings of a biologist who sought to understand the range of human sexual relations. |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 7 | Mary Pickford The life and career of one of the first "superstars" of the American screen. |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 8 | The Great Transatlantic Cable America lays a telegraph cable across the Atlantic and enables almost-instant communication with Europe for the first time in history. |
| Saison 17 - épisode 9 | The Fall of Saigon Events surrounding the loss of the South Vietnamese city and the struggle of those who lived there. | |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 10 | Victory in the Pacific How the end of World War II in the Pacific Theater affected Americans and Japanese. |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 11 | The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken? The genesis of one of America's most influential performing families and the struggles to keep the group together in the face of personal problems. |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 12 | Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst The kidnapping of the heiress and her later sympathies to the cause of her captors. |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 13 | The Massie Affair Racial anger erupts in Hawaii after five non-White men are wrongly accused of raping a Navy wife in the early 1930s. |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 1 | Two Days in October Discord in two different places - a withering ambush of US troops by the Viet Cong 40 miles west of Saigon and a student protest that turns violent... |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 2 | Race to the Moon The Apollo 8 mission to orbit the moon and the men and women behind the effort. |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 3 | Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (1): Sin City The story of the circumstances that led to the founding of what would become a huge tourist destination in the desert. |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 4 | Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (2): American Mecca The story of the circumstances that led to the founding of what would become a huge tourist destination in the desert. |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 5 | John and Abigail Adams A chronicle of the lives of the couple and their mutual regard for each other's abilities and intelligence. |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 6 | The Nuremberg Trials On November 20, 1945, the twenty-two surviving representatives of the Nazi elite stood before an international military tribunal at the Palace of... |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 7 | Jesse James An examination of the real details of the notorious outlaw and his brother. |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 8 | Hijacked The motivations of the "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" and the airplane hijackings they carried out. |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 9 | Eugene O'Neill The life of one of the 20th century's most acclaimed playwrights. |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 10 | The Boy in the Bubble Account of David Vetter, a boy with an immune system so compromised that he led a life of isolation in a sealed enclosure. |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 11 | The Alaska Pipeline The engineering behind the challenging work of transporting oil during the height of the energy crisis and the subsequent environmental impact of... |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 12 | Annie Oakley Chronicle of the amazing markswoman, her life, the discovery of her talent, and the promotion of her career. |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 13 | The Man Behind Hitler Documentary on Joseph Goebbels and the propaganda behind the success of the Nazi regime - told mainly though his own diaries and speeches. |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 1 | Eyes on the Prize (1 & 2): Awakenings/Fighting Back Awakenings (1954-1956) Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men... |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 2 | Eyes on the Prize (3 & 4): Ain't Scared of Your Jails/No Easy Walk American Experience re-broadcast of the 1987 documentary on civil rights by Blackside, Inc. Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) Black college... |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 3 | Eyes on the Prize (5 & 6): Is This America?/Bridge to Freedom American Experience re-broadcast of the 1987 documentary on civil rights by Blackside, Inc Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964) Mississippi's... |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 4 | Test Tube Babies Science enables advances in reproduction and the establishment of a new medical industry, but often not one as successful as people imagine. |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 5 | The Great Fever Walter Reed travels to Cuba to investigate the radical theory that mosquitoes spread deadly Yellow Fever. |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 6 | The Gold Rush The story of gold in California and the migration, immigration, and economy that remained after the riches were gone. |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 7 | The Berlin Airlift It could have been the start of World War III. Instead, it became the largest humanitarian campaign the world had ever seen. On June 24, 1948, one... |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 8 | The Living Weapon The history and ramifications of biological weapons and the stand the United States took in ending further research. |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 9 | New Orleans (1 & 2) The historical, social, and geographic factors that shaped one of America's most uniquely individual cities. |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 10 | Sister Aimee The story of the career of the extremely influential evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 11 | Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple The details behind the beginnings and end of Peoples Temple headed by Jim Jones, including the tragic suicides of many of its members in the jungles... |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 12 | Summer of Love A chronicle of Haight Ashbury in the summer of 1967 and the peak of American youth counterculture. |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 13 | The Mormons (1): History A story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - its beginnings in 1830, the migration of its persecuted members, and its role and... |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 14 | The Mormons (2): Church and State A story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - its beginnings in 1830, the migration of its persecuted members, and its role and... |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 15 | Alexander Hamilton A profile of the aristocratic founding father, his efforts to bring federal economic reforms to the fledgling country, and how his aloof personality... |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 1 | Oswald's Ghost A re-examination of the JFK assassination and the subsequent investigations that led to a mistrust of the government's explanations of the act. |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 2 | The Lobotomist A look at the controversial work of Walter Freeman, a neurosurgeon who sought to alleviate severe mental disorder by permanently disabling the... |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 3 | Eyes on the Prize II (1 & 2): The Time Has Come/Two Societies Special Sunday re-broadcasts of Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads, a 1990 sequel to the original series produced by Blackside,... |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 4 | Grand Central The story of the origins of New York's re-imagined Grand Central Station in the early 20th century, proclaimed in its time as the most majestic and... |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 5 | Eyes on the Prize II (3 & 4): Power!/The Promised Land Special Sunday re-broadcasts of Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads, a 1990 sequel to the original series produced by Blackside,... |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 6 | Eyes on the Prize II (5 & 6): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law? Special Sunday re-broadcasts of Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads, a 1990 sequel to the original series produced by Blackside,... |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 7 | Kit Carson The true story behind the mountain man whose unique abilities were critical to America's westward expansion. |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 8 | Eyes on the Prize II (7 & 8): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement Special Sunday re-broadcasts of Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads, a 1990 sequel to the original series produced by Blackside,... |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 9 | Buffalo Bill The varied career of William Cody - from western legend to even greater fame in preserving the culture and mystique of the lifestyle through his... |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 10 | Minik: The Lost Eskimo A documentary of a young Greenland Inuit who experiences New York City at the end of the 19th century. |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 11 | Walt Whitman A chronicle of the poetry of Whitman through the lens of his personality and background - with a discussion of both the literary praise and... |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 12 | Roberto Clemente An examination of the athletic career and humanitarian interests of the acknowledged baseball star of the late 60s and earliest 70s. |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 13 | George H.W. Bush (1) A detailed chronicle of the Bush family and the life of the 41st President of the United States - from World War II to the Gulf War and beyond. |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 14 | George H.W. Bush (2) A detailed chronicle of the Bush family and the life of the 41st President of the United States - from World War II to the Gulf War and beyond. |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 1 | The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer The career of America's most famous and controversial nuclear physicist and his fall from grace during the Cold War. |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 2 | The Polio Crusade The human story behind the massive American effort to eliminate the debilitating effects of the polio virus and the truly untested nature of Salk's... |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 3 | The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln The circumstances surrounding the last days of the 16th President of the United States. |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 4 | A Class Apart A 1951 murder by a Mexican-American laborer brings into question the legal status of Hispanics in the United States. |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 5 | We Shall Remain (1): After the Mayflower A chronicle of the early relations and negotiations between the tribes of what became known as New England and the European settlers. |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 6 | We Shall Remain (2): Tecumseh's Vision The story of a great Native American alliance to counter the 1800s US westward expansion from the Atlantic coast. |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 7 | We Shall Remain (3): Trail of Tears Perspectives on the forced move of the Cherokee from the southeast to the newly established "Indian Territory" of what is now Oklahoma |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 8 | We Shall Remain (4): Geronimo A portrait of the Chiracahua Apache who was one of the last Native Americans to continue armed resistance in North America. |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 9 | We Shall Remain (5): Wounded Knee Rebellious Lakota and allies take up arms in 1973 and force an examination of the failures of the reservation system in the United States. |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 10 | Episode 10 |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 11 | Surviving the Dust Bowl The story of the farmers who came to the Southern Plains of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas dreaming of prosperity, and lived through ten years of... |
 | Saison 22 - épisode 1 | Civilian Conservation Corps FDR establishes a back-to-work program that generates employment and addresses some of the nation's environmental needs during the Great Depression. |
 | Saison 22 - épisode 2 | Wyatt Earp The complex life of a man who has come to represent western justice but had many connections to lawlessness. |
 | Saison 22 - épisode 3 | The Bombing of Germany This film examines the defining moments of the offensive that led the U.S. across a moral divide. Weaving interviews with WWII pilots and historians... |
 | Saison 22 - épisode 4 | Dolley Madison Tony Award-winner Eve Best stars as Dolley Madison, America’s “first First Lady”; Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays is James Madison. |
 | Saison 22 - épisode 5 | Earth Days Director Robert Stone traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its... |
 | Saison 22 - épisode 6 | My Lai Examines one of the darkest chapters of the Vietnam War: the 1968 My Lai massacre, its cover-up and the soldiers who broke rank to halt the... |
 | Saison 22 - épisode 7 | Roads to Memphis A treatment of the assassination of Martin Luther King by James Earl Ray from the perspective of the actual lives of the two men. |
 | Saison 22 - épisode 8 | Into the Deep: America, Whaling and the World The story of the American whaling industry and its role in the development of the ocean-going capacites of the 19th century United States. |
| Saison 22 - épisode 9 | Joseph McCarthy The rise and fall of the controversial anti-communist Senator from Wisconsin. | |
| Saison 22 - épisode 10 | Episode 10 | |
| Saison 22 - épisode 11 | Episode 11 | |
| Saison 22 - épisode 12 | Episode 12 | |
| Saison 22 - épisode 13 | Episode 13 | |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 1 | God in America: A New Adam (1) & A New Eden (2) A New Adam explores the origins of Christian religion in America and examines how the New World changed the faiths that the settlers brought with... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 2 | God in America: A Nation Reborn (3) & A New Light (4) During the 19th century, the forces of modernity challenged traditional faith and drove a wedge between liberal and conservative believers. |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 3 | God in America: Soul of a Nation (5) & Of God and Caesar (6) Hour five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused faith with... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 4 | Robert E. Lee Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration. |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 5 | Dinosaur Wars In the late 19th century, paleontologists Edward Cope and O.C. Marsh uncovered the remains of hundreds of prehistoric animals in the American West,... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 6 | Panama Canal The 1904-1914 construction of the Panama Canal, the 50-mile link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is recalled via archival footage, photos... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 7 | The Greely Expedition In 1881, 25 men led by Adolphus Greely set sail from Newfoundland to Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 8 | Triangle Fire It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history. A dropped match on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sparked a... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 9 | The Great Famine The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 10 | Stonewall Uprising The event that launched a worldwide rights movement -- a story told by those who took part, from drag queens and street hustlers to police... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 11 | Soundtrack for a Revolution The story of the American civil rights movement told through the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in paddy wagons... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 12 | Freedom Riders The story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South. |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 13 | Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided The marriage of Abraham and Mary Lincoln was long and turbulent, and knew many trials, including the loss of two children. Abraham and Mary Lincoln:... |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 1 | Billy the Kid A fascinating look at the myth and the man behind it, who, in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny orphan boy to the most feared... |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 2 | Custer's Last Stand A profile of Gen. George Armstrong Custer (1839-76), nicknamed "the boy general" for his Civil War exploits, who died with many other members of the... |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 3 | Clinton (1): The Comeback Kid Part 1 of a two-part profile of former president Bill Clinton charts his path from Hope, Ark., to Washington, D.C., ending midway through his first... |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 4 | Clinton (2): The Survivor The conclusion of the Bill Clinton biography recalls the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which led to Clinton becoming the second U.S. president to be... |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 5 | The Amish The first documentary to deeply penetrate and explore this profoundly attention-averse group, The Amish answers many questions Americans have about... |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 6 | Grand Coulee Dam Featuring the men and women who lived and worked at Grand Coulee in the wake of the Great Depression and the Native people whose lives were changed... |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 7 | Jesse Owens Despite Jesse Owens' remarkable victories in the face of Nazi racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the athlete struggled to find a place for himself... |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 8 | Death and the Civil War With the coming of the Civil War, and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered the experience of the American people as it never had... |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 9 | The Abolitionists: 1820s-1838 Abolitionist allies Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimké turned a despised fringe... |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 10 | The Abolitionists: 1838-1854 See how the activities of the five principals intersect and affect the anti-slavery movement. |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 11 | The Abolitionists: 1854-Emancipation and Victory Examine the forces leading to war and to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 12 | Henry Ford An absorbing life story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, Henry Ford... |
 | Saison 24 - épisode 13 | Silicon Valley Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a... |
 | Saison 25 - épisode 1 | Silicon Valley Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a... |
 | Saison 25 - épisode 2 | The Poisoner's Handbook The story of New York City's first medical examiner, Charles Norris (1867-1935), and his chief toxicologist, Alexander Gettler (1883-1968), who... |
 | Saison 25 - épisode 3 | 1964 Recalling 1964, a pivotal year in U.S. history. While the Beatles captured the imaginations of the nation's youth, President Lyndon B. Johnson... |
 | Saison 25 - épisode 4 | The Amish: Shunned Filmed over the course of twelve months, The Amish: Shunned follows seven former members of the Amish community as they reflect on their decisions... |
 | Saison 25 - épisode 5 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, better known as Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, form the Wild Bunch gang and pull off the... |
 | Saison 25 - épisode 6 | The Rise and Fall of Penn Station In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East... |
 | Saison 25 - épisode 7 | Freedom Summer In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students join with organizers and local blacks to canvas for voter registration, create Freedom Schools and... |
 | Saison 25 - épisode 8 | Episode 10 The story of New York City's first medical examiner, Charles Norris (1867-1935), and his chief toxicologist, Alexander Gettler (1883-1968), who... |
| Saison 25 - épisode 9 | Episode 10 | |
 | Saison 25 - épisode 10 | Episode 12 JFK presents a fresh look at an enigmatic man who remains one of the nation's most beloved and mourned leaders, John F. Kennedy. It offers a new... |
 | Saison 25 - épisode 11 | Episode 13 JFK presents a fresh look at an enigmatic man who remains one of the nation's most beloved and mourned leaders, John F. Kennedy. It offers a new... |
| Saison 25 - épisode 12 | Episode 13 | |
 | Saison 25 - épisode 13 | Episode 14 Shortly after 8 p.m. on October 30th, 1938, the voice of a panicked radio announcer broke in with a news bulletin reporting strange explosions... |
| Saison 25 - épisode 14 | Episode 14 | |
 | Saison 26 - épisode 1 | Cold War Roadshow In the fall of 1959, at the height of the Cold War, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured the United States for 12 days at the invitation of... |
 | Saison 26 - épisode 2 | Ripley: Believe It or Not Robert Ripley's obsession with the odd and keen eye for the curious made him one of the most successful men in America during the Great Depression.... |
 | Saison 26 - épisode 3 | Klansville, USA The rise of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina during the 1960s is recalled. In 1963, Bob Jones Sr. started the state's chapter for the racist... |
 | Saison 26 - épisode 4 | Edison EDISON explores the complex alchemy that accounts for the enduring celebrity of America's most famous inventor, offering new perspectives on the man... |
 | Saison 26 - épisode 5 | The Big Burn In 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... |
 | Saison 26 - épisode 6 | The Forgotten Plague By the dawn of the 19th century, the most deadly killer in human history, tuberculosis, had killed one in seven of all the people who had ever lived.... |
 | Saison 26 - épisode 7 | Last Days in Vietnam The North Vietnamese Army was nearing Saigon and the South Vietnamese resistance was at a low. Nearly 5,000 Americans still needed to remove from... |
 | Saison 26 - épisode 8 | Blackout First responders, journalists, shop owners, those inside the pressure-packed control center of Con Edison on West End Avenue, and other New Yorkers... |
 | Saison 26 - épisode 9 | 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... |
 | Saison 26 - épisode 10 | Walt Disney (2) AMERICAN EXPERIENCE offers an unprecedented look at the life and legacy of one of America’s most enduring and influential storytellers in Walt... |
 | Saison 26 - épisode 11 | American Comandante When William Morgan was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961, his strange story seemed to vanish from the popular imagination as... |
 | Saison 26 - épisode 12 | The Pilgrims The challenges the Pilgrims faced in making new lives for themselves still resonate almost 400 years later: the tensions of faith and freedom in... |
| Saison 27 - épisode 1 | Walt Disney The life and legacy of filmmaker and animator Walt Disney, from his creation of Mickey Mouse through the making of "Snow White," the first... | |
 | Saison 28 - épisode 1 | Bonnie & Clyde Though their exploits were romanticized, the Barrow gang was believed responsible for at least 13 murders, including nine law enforcement officers,... |
 | Saison 28 - épisode 2 | The Mine Wars Go inside the coal miners' bitter battle for dignity at the dawn of the 20th century with The Mine Wars. The struggle over the material that fueled... |
 | Saison 28 - épisode 3 | Murder of a President The story of James Garfield, one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president, and his assassination by a deluded madman named Charles... |
 | Saison 28 - épisode 4 | The Perfect Crime The shocking story of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart... |
 | Saison 28 - épisode 5 | Space Men In the 1950s and early '60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extreme forces of the space age long before NASA's... |
 | Saison 28 - épisode 6 | The Boys of '36 A group of working-class boys from the University of Washington, in the United States, surprise a nation when they capture the gold medal in rowing... |
 | Saison 28 - épisode 7 | The Big Burn In 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... |
 | Saison 29 - épisode 1 | Tesla A profile of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), the genius engineer who developed a way to distribute electricity over vast distances; and who envisioned a... |
 | Saison 29 - épisode 2 | The Battle of Chosin Revisit this pivotal 1950 Korean War battle through the eyewitness accounts of participants. A harrowing story of bloody combat and heroic survival... |
 | Saison 29 - épisode 3 | Command and Control A chilling nightmare plays out at a Titan II missile complex in Arkansas in September, 1980. A worker accidentally drops a socket, puncturing the... |
 | Saison 29 - épisode 4 | Rachel Carson She set out to save a species...us. An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. |
 | Saison 29 - épisode 5 | The Race Underground The dramatic story of the country's first subway in late-19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. |
 | Saison 29 - épisode 6 | Oklahoma City On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by literature and ideas of the radical right, killed 168, and injured 675... |
 | Saison 29 - épisode 7 | Ruby Ridge A riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement. |
 | Saison 29 - épisode 8 | The Great War (1) The Great War, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. |
 | Saison 29 - épisode 9 | The Great War (2) The Great War, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. |
 | Saison 29 - épisode 10 | The Great War (3) The Great War, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. |
 | Saison 29 - épisode 11 | Episode 12 The Utopian beginnings of peace and love prevailed, and ended in chaos. |
 | Saison 30 - épisode 1 | Into the Amazon The remarkable story of President Theodore Roosevelt’s journey with legendary Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon into the heart of the South American... |
 | Saison 30 - épisode 2 | The Secret of Tuxedo Park In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his country’s most valuable military secret — a revolutionary radar... |
 | Saison 30 - épisode 3 | The Gilded Age Meet the titans and barons of the glittering late 19th century, whose materialistic extravagance contrasted harshly with the poverty of the... |
 | Saison 30 - épisode 4 | The Bombing of Wall Street Explore the story behind the first terrorist attack in the U.S., a mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in the nation’s financial center that left 38 dead... |
 | Saison 30 - épisode 5 | The Chinese Exclusion Act Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already... |
 | Saison 30 - épisode 6 | The Island Murder In the summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against five nonwhite... |
 | Saison 30 - épisode 7 | The Circus: Part One This four-hour mini-series tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history.Through the... |
 | Saison 30 - épisode 8 | The Circus: Part Two This four-hour mini-series tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history.Through the... |
 | Saison 30 - épisode 9 | The Eugenics Crusade The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely –– and largely unknown –– campaign to breed a “better” American race, tracing the rise of the... |
 | Saison 31 - épisode 1 | The Swamp The history of the Everglades is a dramatic yet little known story of humanity’s attempt to conquer nature. |
 | Saison 31 - épisode 2 | Sealab On a February day in 1969, off the shore of northern California, a US Navy crane carefully lowered 300 tons of metal into the Pacific Ocean. The... |
 | Saison 31 - épisode 3 | Chasing the Moon - A Place Beyond the Sky Part 1 of a three-part history of the space race. First up: America's struggle to catch up with the Soviet Union and the enormous stakes in the... |
 | Saison 31 - épisode 4 | Chasing the Moon - Earthrise Part 2 of 3 details what it took to beat the Soviet Union to the moon in the space race. In the turbulent and troubled '60s, the U.S. space program... |
 | Saison 31 - épisode 5 | Chasing the Moon - Magnificent Desolation Conclusion. The triumph of the first moon landing, witnessed by the largest TV audience in history. But dreams of space dramatically intersect with... |
 | Saison 31 - épisode 6 | Woodstock In August, 1969, half a million people from all walks of life and every corner of the country converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York.... |
 | Saison 31 - épisode 7 | The Feud The feud between the Hatfields and McCoys is perhaps the most famous family conflict in American history. As legend has it, two neighboring families... |
| Saison 32 - épisode 1 | The Feud The real story behind the most famous family conflict in American history — the bloody backwoods battle between Appalachian clans, the Hatfields and... |
