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Coming in January 2014
Check out what's coming up in January 2014 on American Experience. Watch this three-minute video in which our Executive Producer Mark Samels details our new films premiering in January, and read the synopses below. (Our Coming in February video is coming soon!)
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1:22:36
Bombshell explores how the US manipulated the narrative about the toll of the WWII atomic bombings.
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1:22:42
Discover how Kissinger’s anti-Communism would shape U.S. foreign policy, from Vietnam to the USSR.
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1:22:49
The life of the brilliant foreign policy powerbroker who shaped the world in which we live.
1:21:16
The violent 1970 clash between student protestors and construction workers in downtown NY.
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52:39
The story of L.A.’s noxious smog problem and the creation of the EPA and Clean Air Act.
52:20
The story of Edwin Land, whose iconic Polaroid camera let everyone instantly chronicle their lives.
53:00
The dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990.
1:52:47
The story of one of the most influential yet forgotten civil rights figures, Walter White.
1:51:27
The little-known story of the deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’etat in Wilmington, NC.
52:36
A look at the US vice presidency, from constitutional afterthought to position of political import.
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1:53:04
When US inner cities erupted in violence in 1967, LBJ created a commission to investigate.
1:52:30
The story of housewives who led a grassroots movement to galvanize the Superfund Bill.