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American Experience
The Man Who Tried to Feed the World
Season 32
Episode 3
The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of the man who would not only solve India’s famine problem but would go on to lead a “Green Revolution” of worldwide agriculture programs estimated to have saved one billion lives.
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The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the campaign to breed a “better” American race,
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After attempting to commit the perfect crime, would two boys get the death penalty?
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In the 1950's a Polio outbreak swept the U.S., devastating communities nationwide.
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1:49:38
The man behind the atomic bomb is put on trial for suspected communist ties in 1954.
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1:49:22
The final months of WWII from the vantage points of both the Japanese and the Americans.
