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American Experience

The Great War: Transformed

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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Woodstock
1:38:42
They came to hear the concert of their lives, but experienced something far more profound.
The Eugenics Crusade
1:53:12
The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the campaign to breed a “better” American race,
The Gilded Age
1:52:46
The Gilded Age: Full Film
Rachel Carson
1:53:15
The woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world.
The Perfect Crime
52:03
After attempting to commit the perfect crime, would two boys get the death penalty?
My Lai
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52:21
The 1968 My Lai massacre and its subsequent cover-up.
The Polio Crusade
52:01
In the 1950's a Polio outbreak swept the U.S., devastating communities nationwide.
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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1:49:38
The man behind the atomic bomb is put on trial for suspected communist ties in 1954.
George H.W. Bush, Part 1
1:51:19
Part of the award-winning The Presidents collection.
Victory in the Pacific
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1:49:22
The final months of WWII from the vantage points of both the Japanese and the Americans.
Seabiscuit
52:55
An over-worked horse and a broken-down jockey capture the nation's imagination.
The Presidents
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1:52:37
Part of the award-winning "The Presidents" collection.
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