American Experience

American Experience poster

A series showcasing documentaries on American history.

Year Started: 1987
Certificate: TV-PG
Show Status: Returning Series
Genre: Biography | Documentary |
Stars:

David McCullough |

David Ogden Stiers |

Michael Murphy |

Campbell Scott |

Liev Schreiber |

Keywords: #Americana | #American History | #Media Coverage | #History Documentary | #Social Documentary |

Season 1 ▼

Episode 1 1988-10-04 - The Great San Francisco Earthquake

Season 2 ▼

Episode 1 1989-10-03 - The Great Air Race of 94
Episode 8 1989-11-21 - Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven

Season 3 ▼

Episode 2 1990-10-15 - Nixon (1): The Quest
Episode 3 1990-10-15 - Nixon (2): Triumph
Episode 4 1990-10-15 - Nixon (): The Fall
Episode 8 1990-11-19 - The Crash of 1929
Episode 14 -

Season 4 ▼

Episode 1 1991-09-30 - LBJ ()
Episode 2 1991-09-30 - LBJ ()

Season 5 ▼

Episode 1 1992-09-20 - The Kennedys (): The Father 9006
Episode 2 1992-09-21 - The Kennedys (): The Sons 196180
Episode 3 1992-10-28 - The Donner Party
Episode 12 1993-03-01 - Goin' Back to TTown

Season 6 ▼

Episode 3 1993-11-10 - Ike (1): Soldier
Episode 5 1994-01-26 - Malcolm X: Make It Plain

Season 7 ▼

Season 10 ▼

Episode 1 1997-10-05 - Truman (): An Accident of Democracy
Episode 2 1997-10-06 - Truman (): The Moon the Stars and All the Planets
Episode 5 1998-02-09 - Influenza 1918
Episode 6 1998-02-23 - Reagan (1): Lifeguard
Episode 7 1998-02-24 - Reagan (2): An American Crusade
Episode 16 -
Episode 17 -
Episode 18 -
Episode 19 -
Episode 20 -

Season 11 ▼

Episode 6 1999-02-22 - Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Episode 10 1999-05-24 - Fly Girls

Season 12 ▼

Episode 7 2000-01-24 - Houdini
Episode 9 2000-02-14 - The Duel
Episode 10 2000-02-28 - John Brown's Holy War

Season 13 ▼

Episode 5 2001-02-05 - Streamliners: America's Last Trains
Episode 7 2001-02-19 - Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided Part I
Episode 8 2001-02-20 - Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided Part II
Episode 9 2001-02-21 - Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided Part III
Episode 10 2001-04-02 - Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Episode 11 2001-04-16 - Fatal Flood
Episode 12 2001-04-23 - Stephen Foster
Episode 13 2001-02-21 - Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided Part IV

Season 14 ▼

Episode 6 2002-01-20 - Mount Rushmore
Episode 11 2002-04-21 - Ansel Adams

Season 15 ▼

Episode 1 2002-11-11 - Jimmy Carter (): Jimmy Who?
Episode 2 2002-11-12 - Jimmy Carter (): Hostage
Episode 7 2003-01-27 - Transcontinental Railroad
Episode 11 2003-04-21 - Seabiscuit

Season 16 ▼

Episode 2 2004-01-12 - Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (1): Revolution
Episode 3 2004-01-13 - Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2): Retreat
Episode 9 2004-05-03 - Golden Gate Bridge

Season 17 ▼

Episode 1 2004-10-04 - RFK (Part & 2)

Season 18 ▼

Episode 1 2005-10-17 - Two Days in October
Episode 3 2005-11-14 - Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (1): Sin City
Episode 4 2005-11-15 - Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (2): American Mecca
Episode 6 2006-01-30 - The Nuremberg Trials
Episode 7 2006-02-06 - Jesse James
Episode 13 2006-05-22 - The Man Behind Hitler

Season 19 ▼

Episode 15 2007-05-14 - Alexander Hamilton
Episode 16 -
Episode 17 -
Episode 18 -

Season 20 ▼

Episode 1 2008-01-14 - Oswald's Ghost
Episode 16 -

Season 21 ▼

Episode 2 2009-02-02 - The Polio Crusade
Episode 3 2009-02-09 - The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Episode 7 2009-04-27 - We Shall Remain (3): Trail of Tears
Episode 8 2009-05-04 - We Shall Remain (4): Geronimo
Episode 9 2009-05-11 - We Shall Remain (5): Wounded Knee

Season 22 ▼

Episode 2 2010-01-25 - Wyatt Earp
Episode 4 2010-03-01 - Dolley Madison
Episode 6 2010-04-26 - My Lai

Season 23 ▼

Episode 7 2011-01-31 - The Greely Expedition
Episode 8 2011-02-28 - Triangle Fire
Episode 9 2011-04-11 - The Great Famine
Episode 10 2011-04-25 - Stonewall Uprising
Episode 15 -

Season 24 ▼

Episode 2 2012-01-17 - Custer's Last Stand
Episode 6 2012-04-03 - Grand Coulee Dam

Season 25 ▼

Episode 1 2013-01-08 - The Abolitionists: 820s838
Episode 2 2013-01-15 - The Abolitionists: 18381854
Episode 3 2013-01-22 - The Abolitionists: 1854Emancipation and Victory
Episode 4 2013-01-29 - Henry Ford
Episode 5 2013-02-05 - Silicon Valley
Episode 6 2013-10-29 - War of the Worlds
Episode 7 2013-11-11 - JFK (Part 1)
Episode 8 2013-11-12 - JFK (Part 2)

Season 26 ▼

Episode 1 2014-01-07 - The Poisoner's Handbook
Episode 2 2014-01-14 - 1964
Episode 3 2014-02-04 - The Amish: Shunned
Episode 4 2014-02-11 - Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Episode 5 2014-02-18 - The Rise and Fall of Penn Station
Episode 6 2014-06-24 - Freedom Summer
Episode 7 2014-11-18 - Cold War Roadshow
Episode 8 -

Season 27 ▼

Episode 1 2015-01-06 - Ripley: Believe It or Not
Episode 2 2015-01-13 - Klansville USA
Episode 3 2015-01-27 - Edison
Episode 4 2015-02-03 - The Big Burn
Episode 5 2015-02-10 - The Forgotten Plague
Episode 6 2015-04-28 - Last Days In Vietnam
Episode 7 2015-07-14 - Blackout
Episode 8 2015-09-14 - Walt Disney (1)
Episode 9 2015-09-15 - Walt Disney (2)
Episode 10 2015-11-17 - American Comandante
Episode 11 2015-11-24 - The Pilgrims

Season 28 ▼

Episode 1 2016-01-19 - Bonnie & Clyde
Episode 2 2016-01-26 - The Mine Wars
Episode 3 2016-02-02 - Murder of a President
Episode 4 2016-02-09 - The Perfect Crime
Episode 5 2016-03-01 - Space Men
Episode 6 2016-08-02 - The Boys of '3
Episode 7 2016-10-18 - Tesla
Episode 8 2016-11-01 - The Battle of Chosin
Episode 10 -

Season 29 ▼

Episode 1 2017-01-10 - Command and Control
Episode 2 2017-01-24 - Rachel Carson
Episode 3 2017-01-31 - The Race Underground
Episode 4 2017-02-07 - Oklahoma City
Episode 5 2017-02-14 - Ruby Ridge
Episode 6 2017-04-10 - The Great War: Part 1
Episode 7 2017-04-11 - The Great War: Part 2
Episode 8 2017-04-12 - The Great War: Part 3
Episode 9 - 2
Episode 10 -

Season 30 ▼

Episode 1 2018-01-09 - Into the Amazon
Episode 2 2018-01-16 - The Secret of Tuxedo Park
Episode 3 2018-02-06 - The Gilded Age
Episode 4 2018-02-13 - The Bombing of Wall Street
Episode 5 2018-04-17 - The Island Murder
Episode 6 2018-05-29 - The Chinese Exclusion Act
Episode 7 2018-10-08 - The Circus (Part 1)
Episode 8 2018-10-09 - The Circus (Part 2)
Episode 9 2018-10-16 - The Eugenics Crusade
Episode 11 -

Season 31 ▼

Episode 1 2019-01-15 - The Swamp
Episode 2 2019-02-12 - Sealab
Episode 3 2019-07-08 - Chasing the Moon A Place Beyond the Sky
Episode 4 2019-07-09 - Chasing the Moon Earthrise
Episode 5 2019-07-10 - Chasing the Moon Magnificent Desolation
Episode 6 2019-08-06 - Woodstock
Episode 7 2019-09-10 - The Feud
Episode 9 -
Episode 10 -

Season 32 ▼

Episode 1 2020-01-06 - McCarthy
Episode 2 2020-01-28 - The Poison Squad
Episode 3 2020-04-21 - The Man Who Tried to Feed The World
Episode 4 2020-05-04 - George W. Bush (Part 1)
Episode 5 2020-05-05 - George W. Bush (Part 2)
Episode 6 2020-05-19 - Mr. Tornado
Episode 7 2020-07-06 - The Vote (Part 1)
Episode 8 2020-07-07 - The Vote (Part 2)
Episode 9 -

Season 33 ▼

Episode 1 2021-01-11 - The Codebreaker
Episode 2 2021-02-15 - Voice of Freedom
Episode 3 2021-03-30 - The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Episode 4 2021-04-19 - American Oz
Episode 5 2021-05-17 - Billy Graham
Episode 6 2021-09-13 - Sandra Day O'Connor: The First
Episode 7 2021-09-27 - Citizen Hearst (1)
Episode 8 2021-09-28 - Citizen Hearst (2)

Season 34 ▼

Episode 1 2022-02-07 - Riveted: The History of Jeans
Episode 2 2022-02-15 - The American Diplomat
Episode 3 2022-05-03 - Flood in the Desert
Episode 4 2022-05-24 - Plague at the Golden Gate
Episode 5 2022-11-14 - Taken Hostage (1)
Episode 6 2022-11-15 - Taken Hostage (2)

Season 35 ▼

Episode 1 2023-01-03 - The Lie Detector
Episode 2 2023-01-17 - Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Episode 3 2023-02-20 - Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
Episode 4 2023-03-28 - The Movement and the Madman
Episode 5 2023-04-04 - The Sun Queen
Episode 6 2023-06-27 - Casa Susanna
Episode 7 2023-09-11 - The Busing Battleground
Episode 8 2023-09-12 - The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools
Episode 9 2023-10-30 - The War on Disco

Season 36 ▼

Episode 1 2024-01-23 - Nazi Town USA
Episode 2 2024-02-20 - Fly With Me
Episode 3 2024-03-26 - The Cancer Detectives
Episode 4 2024-04-22 - Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal
Episode 5 2024-05-21 - The Riot Report
Episode 6 2024-10-01 - The American Vice President
Episode 7 2024-11-12 - American Coup: Wilmington 1898

Season 37 ▼

Episode 1 2025-02-24 - Forgotten Hero: Walter White and The NAACP
Episode 2 2025-03-24 - Change Not Charity
Episode 3 2025-03-31 - Mr. Polaroid
Episode 4 2025-08-26 - Clearing the Air: The War on Smog
Episode 5 2025-09-30 - Hard Hat Riot
Episode 6 2025-10-27 - Kissinger Part One: The Necessity of Power
Episode 7 2025-10-28 - Kissinger Part Two: The Opportunist
Episode 8 2026-01-06 - Bombshell

Season 38 ▼

Episode 1 2026-01-06 - Bombshell

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