American Experience (1988)
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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21x01 The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

27 January, 2009 5:00 am
The career of America's most famous and controversial nuclear physicist and his fall from grace during the Cold War.

21x02 The Polio Crusade

03 February, 2009 5:00 am
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 original vaccine.

21x03 The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

10 February, 2009 5:00 am
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Over the next twelve days, as a fractured nation mourned, the largest manhunt ever attempted closed in on his assassin, the renowned 26-year-old actor John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln recounts this great American drama: two tumultuous months when the joy of peace was shattered by the heartache of Lincoln’s death.

21x04 A Class Apart

24 February, 2009 5:00 am
A 1951 murder by a Mexican-American laborer brings into question the legal status of Hispanics in the United States.

21x05 We Shall Remain (1): After the Mayflower

14 April, 2009 5:00 am
A chronicle of the early relations and negotiations between the tribes of what became known as New England and the European settlers.

21x06 We Shall Remain (2): Tecumseh's Vision

21 April, 2009 5:00 am
The story of a great Native American alliance to counter the 1800s US westward expansion from the Atlantic coast.

21x07 We Shall Remain (3): Trail of Tears

28 April, 2009 5:00 am
Perspectives on the forced move of the Cherokee from the southeast to the newly established "Indian Territory" of what is now Oklahoma

21x08 We Shall Remain (4): Geronimo

05 May, 2009 5:00 am
A portrait of the Chiracahua Apache who was one of the last Native Americans to continue armed resistance in North America.

21x09 We Shall Remain (5): Wounded Knee

12 May, 2009 5:00 am
Rebellious Lakota and allies take up arms in 1973 and force an examination of the failures of the reservation system in the United States.

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