Skip to main content

Up Next

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

Season 29 Episode 3
1:53:15
The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age

Season 30 Episode 3
1:52:46
The Eugenics Crusade

The Eugenics Crusade

Season 30 Episode 11
1:53:12
Part 1 | The Vote | American Experience

Part 1 | The Vote | American Experience

Season 32 Episode 9
1:52:42
Part 2 | The Vote | American Experience

Part 2 | The Vote | American Experience

Season 32 Episode 10
1:52:47
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

Season 33 Episode 3
1:52:23
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard, Spanish

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard, Spanish

Season 33 Episode 42
1:52:49
The Lie Detector

The Lie Detector

Season 35 Episode 1
52:45
Women in American History

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming A Space

Season 35 Episode 2
1:52:24
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History

Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History

Season 35 Episode 3
52:17
The Movement and the "Madman"

The Movement and the "Madman"

Season 35 Episode 4
1:22:39
The Sun Queen

The Sun Queen

Season 35 Episode 5
52:22
Back to Show
American Experience

The Boys of '36

Season 28 Episode 7

The story of nine working-class young men from the University of Washington who took the rowing world and America by storm when they captured gold at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Their unexpected victory, against not only the Ivy League teams of the East Coast but Adolf Hitler's elite German rowers, gave hope to a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Great Depression.

Watch Preview