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American Experience
The Great War: Culture Change
The Great War tells the rich and complex story of WWI through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as “doughboys.” The series explores the experiences of African American and Latino soldiers, suffragists, Native American “code talkers” and others whose participation in the war to “make the world safe for democracy” has been largely forgotten.
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Part Two examines the mounting dispute over strategies and reveals the pervasive racism.

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The fiery campaign that led to passage of the 19th Amendment, granting women the vote.

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The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the campaign to breed a “better” American race,

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The Gilded Age: Full Film

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The woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world.

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The story of nine young men from Washington who captured gold at the 1936 Olympic Games.

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After attempting to commit the perfect crime, would two boys get the death penalty?

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The Stonewall riots marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement.

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The 1968 My Lai massacre and its subsequent cover-up.

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In the 1950's a Polio outbreak swept the U.S., devastating communities nationwide.

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The man behind the atomic bomb is put on trial for suspected communist ties in 1954.

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The final months of WWII from the vantage points of both the Japanese and the Americans.