American Experience (1988)
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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1. The Lie Detector2023-01-03 · 53mDiscover the story of the polygraph, the controversial device that transformed modern police work, seized headlines and was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool. A tale of
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2. Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space2023-01-17 · 1h 52mMeet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean — recl
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3. Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History2023-02-20 · 52mMonopoly is America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. But behind the myth of the game’s creation is an untold tale of theft,
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4. The Movement and the "Madman"2023-03-28 · 1h 22mDiscover the story of the 1969 showdown between President Nixon and the antiwar movement. Told through firsthand accounts, the film reveals how movement leaders mobilized disparate
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5. The Sun Queen2023-04-04 · 52mScientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. Though undercut and thwarted by her male colleagues, she persevered to design the first successfully
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6. Casa Susanna2023-06-27 · 1h 37mIn the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the ho
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7. The Busing Battleground2023-09-11 · 1h 53mThe Busing Battleground viscerally captures the class tensions and racial violence that ensued when Black and white students in Boston were bused for the first time between neighbo
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8. The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools2023-09-12 · 1h 47mWhen the Supreme Court issued an order to fully and immediately desegregate schools in October 1969, Leland Mississippi finally met the demand put forth in the 1954 Brown v Board o
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9. The War on Disco2023-10-30 · 51mThe War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the rise of Disco music. The hostility came to a head on July 12, 1979, when a riot led by rock fans broke out at “Disco
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