American Experience

Season 14 Episode 14: A Brilliant Madness

36 SeasonsApr 02, 2002TV-PG55m7.6

The conclusion of this biography of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) covers the last 20 years of the life of "the most popular man of the 19th century," as historian Donald Miller calls him. Grant's presidency (1869-77) wasn't the reason. "Military uniforms kept the sides straight on the battlefield, but in Grant's new world it was not so easy to tell friends from enemies," says narrator Liev Schreiber, and some of Grant's political "friends" were c...

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Season 14 Episodes:

Episode 1 New York: Part 6 - The City of Tomorrow

1. New York: Part 6 - The City of Tomorrow

Aired: Sep 10, 2001

Reveals the immense new forces that were unleashed in New York.

Episode 2 New York: Part 7 - The City and the World

2. New York: Part 7 - The City and the World

Aired: Sep 17, 2001

Episode seven chronicles the history of New York from the end of the Second W...

Episode 3 War Letters

Aired: Nov 1, 2001

A documentary based on the book "War Letters; Extraordinary Correspondence Fr...

Episode 4 Woodrow Wilson: Episode One - A Passionate Man

4. Woodrow Wilson: Episode One - A Passionate Man

Aired: Jan 6, 2002

A two-part profile of Woodrow Wilson in which news clips, atmospheric re-crea...

Episode 5 Woodrow Wilson: Episode Two - The Redemption of the World

5. Woodrow Wilson: Episode Two - The Redemption of the World

Aired: Jan 13, 2002

Woodrow Wilson reluctantly enters World War I in an effort to "make the world...

Episode 6 Mount Rushmore

6. Mount Rushmore

Aired: Jan 20, 2002

The grand vision of sculptor Gutzon Borgum and the logistics behind the massi...

Episode 7 Miss America

7. Miss America

Aired: Jan 27, 2002

Recalling the 80-year history of the Miss America Pageant and what narrator C...

Episode 8 Public Enemy Number 1

8. Public Enemy Number 1

Aired: Mar 1, 2002

"Zoot Suit Riots" recalls a week of violence that rocked Los Angeles in June ...

Episode 9 Monkey Trial

9. Monkey Trial

Aired: Feb 23, 2002

In 1925 a Tennessee high school teacher is arrested for teaching Darwin's the...

Episode 10 Zoot Suit Riots

10. Zoot Suit Riots

Aired: Feb 17, 2002

On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at...

Episode 11 Ulysses S. Grant (Part 1)

11. Ulysses S. Grant (Part 1)

Aired: Apr 21, 2002

Ric Burns' profile of the photographer whose connection to Yosemite is such t...

Episode 12 Ulysses S. Grant: Part 2

12. Ulysses S. Grant: Part 2

Aired: Apr 28, 2002

Mathematics genius John Nash recalls his bout with schizophrenia (the subject...

Episode 13 Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film

13. Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film

Aired: Apr 1, 2002

Few American artists have reached a wider audience, or enjoyed more widesprea...

Episode 14 A Brilliant Madness

14. A Brilliant Madness

Aired: Apr 2, 2002

The conclusion of this biography of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) covers the las...

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Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Documentary, History, Biography