American Experience

1. Eyes on the Prize: Parts 1 & 2 - Awakenings/Fighting Back

Part 1 of 3 of the award-winning 1987 documentary "Eyes on the Prize." Includ...

2. Eyes on the Prize: Parts 3 & 4 - Ain't Scared of Your Jails/No Easy Walk

Part 2 of the 1987 documentary "Eyes on the Prize." Included: the 1960 Greens...

3. Eyes on the Prize: Parts 5 & 6 - Is This America?/Bridge to Freedom

Conclusion of the 1987 documentary “Eyes on the Prize.” Included: events of 1...

4. Test Tube Babies

The world's first successful in-vitro fertilization takes place in Great Brit...

5. The Great Fever

The history of yellow fever, and how it was determined that the disease was t...

6. The Gold Rush

A vibrant retelling of the mania that followed the discovery of gold in San F...

7. The Berlin Airlift

One of the first skirmishes of the Cold War, the 1948-49 Soviet blockade of r...

8. The Living Weapon

"The Living Weapon" explores the history of America's biological-weapons prog...

9. New Orleans

A history of New Orleans, from its origins as a French settlement to its post...

10. Sister Aimee

Sister Aimee tells the dramatic life story Aimee Semple McPherson, the contro...

11. Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple

Todays theme is Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple.

12. Summer of Love

Thousands of young people flock to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in...

13. The Mormons: Part I

Historian Sarah Barringer Gordon says of the LDS Church "that from the moment...

14. The Mormons: Part II

An examination of the modern-day LDS Church, including its missionary program...

15. Alexander Hamilton

From his humble beginnings as an immigrant, to his infamous death, the life a...