American Experience

1. Oswald's Ghost

Few Americans then or now accept that a lone, inconsequential gunman could br...

2. The Lobotomist

This program tells the gripping tale of medical intervention gone awry.

3. Eyes on the Prize II (Parts I & II): The Time Has Come/Two Societies

"The Time Has Come 1964-1966": Explores Black militancy and the roots of the ...

4. Grand Central

On January 8, 1902, a commuter train traveling through a tunnel in New York C...

5. Eyes on the Prize II (Parts III & IV): Power!/The Promised Land

"Power. 1966-1968": Explores the influence of the idea of Black power on free...

6. Eyes on the Prize II (Parts V & VI): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?

"Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More 1964-1972": Explores a call to pride and a push ...

7. Kit Carson

In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the c...

8. Eyes on the Prize II (Parts VII & VIII): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement

"The Keys to the Kingdom 1974-1980": In the 1970s, anti-discrimination rights...

9. Buffalo Bill

In 1886, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show played to over one million people in N...

10. Minik, the Lost Eskimo

This installment provides a provocative look at the collision of race, cultur...

11. Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is today one of the most-recognized figures in Ameri...

12. Roberto Clemente

Roberto Clemente is an in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and co...

13. George H.W. Bush: Part I

Follow George H.W. Bush from his childhood into war as a combat pilot in the ...