American Experience (1988)
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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11x01 America 1900 (1): Spirit of the Age
19 November, 1998 5:00 am
11x02 America 1900 (2): Change Is in the Air
19 November, 1998 5:00 am
11x03 America 1900 (3): A Great Civilized Power
26 November, 1998 5:00 am
11x04 America 1900 (4): Anything Seemed Possible
26 November, 1998 5:00 am
11x05 Race for the Super Bomb
12 January, 1999 5:00 am
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.
11x06 Hoover Dam
19 January, 1999 5:00 am
The story behind building one of the greatest Depression-era projects, the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.
11x07 Alone on the Ice
09 February, 1999 5:00 am
An account of Robert Byrd's adventures at the poles and his trials in Antarctica.
11x08 Rescue at Sea
16 February, 1999 5:00 am
The collision of two large ocean-going vessels in 1909 puts the new wireless telegraph to the test.
11x09 Meltdown at Three Mile Island
23 February, 1999 5:00 am
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.
11x10 Lost in the Grand Canyon
06 April, 1999 5:00 am
Geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell undertakes a dangerous water trip down the Colorado River with a crew of adventure-seekers.
11x11 MacArthur (1): Destiny
18 May, 1999 5:00 am
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 alienating superiors hindered his "return" to the Philippines.
11x12 MacArthur (2): The Politics of War
19 May, 1999 5:00 am
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 controversial command in Korea.
11x13 Fly Girls
25 May, 1999 5:00 am
The lives of the Women Air Service Pilots (WASPs) and their flying exploits within the US during World War II.
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