American Experience RSS feed for PBS programming.http://video.pbs.org/en-ushttp://video.pbs.org/Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:37:17 -0500Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:37:17 -0500http://video.pbs.org/video/1311363860/The story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease and even death for nearly a decade.http://video.pbs.org/video/1311363860/Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:38:57 -0800CultureHealth & WellnessHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesNature & EnvironmentNature & Environment/ConservationNature & Environment/EnvironmentRegionRegion/United StatesScienceScience/Earth SciencesThe Dust Bowl brought drought, dust, disease and death to the Midwest for nearly a decade.tv-pgConservation, Great Depression, farming, 1930s, Dust Bowl, MidwestCultureHealth & WellnessHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesNature & EnvironmentNature & Environment/ConservationNature & Environment/EnvironmentRegionRegion/United StatesScienceScience/Earth Scienceshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1309577149/The CCC was President Roosevelt's answer to the environmental and economic challenges facing the country. Enlisting 250,000 workers in just two months, the CCC was an ambitious undertaking that brought several government agencies together in the effort.http://video.pbs.org/video/1309577149/Tue, 3 Nov 2009 06:33:22 -0800CultureHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesNature & EnvironmentNature & Environment/ConservationNature & Environment/EnvironmentRegionRegion/United StatesFour Corpsmen share experiences of hard work and brotherhood from their time in the CCC.tv-gNew Deal, civilian conservation corps, ccc, roosevelt, 1930sCultureHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesNature & EnvironmentNature & Environment/ConservationNature & Environment/EnvironmentRegionRegion/United Stateshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1308436568/Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich.http://video.pbs.org/video/1308436568/Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:21:19 -0700CultureHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesNews & Public AffairsNews & Public Affairs/Business & EconomyRegionRegion/United StatesIt was a time when the stock market epitomized the false promise of permanent prosperity.tv-gGreat Depression, wall street, Recession, stock market, crash, 1929, the 1930sCultureHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesNews & Public AffairsNews & Public Affairs/Business & EconomyRegionRegion/United Stateshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1220880373/This five-part series examines the political and cultural life of America during a tumultuous decade -- and draws parallels to our current age. Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929, the series looks at the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the construction of the Hoover Dam, the catastrophic drought that created the Dust Bowl and an unlikely hero: Seabiscuit.http://video.pbs.org/video/1220880373/Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:32:52 -0700HistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesWatch the five-part series Mondays through November 23, 9PM on PBS.nrHistoryHistory/20th & 21st Centurieshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1165093950/Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.http://video.pbs.org/video/1165093950/Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:27:08 -0700CultureHistoryHistory/19th CenturyHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/North AmericaThe dramatic manhunt following the assassination of President Lincoln.tv-pgCultureHistoryHistory/19th CenturyHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/North Americahttp://video.pbs.org/video/1150315379/AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents Roberto Clemente. Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change. He would die in a tragic plane crash in 1972. Interviewees include authors David Maraniss and George F. Will, Clemente's wife Vera, and Baseball Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda.http://video.pbs.org/video/1150315379/Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:26:03 -0700CultureCulture/CommunitiesCulture/People & ProfilesCulture/Sports & RecreationCulture/TravelCulture/TV & RadioHealth & WellnessHealth & Wellness/Sports & FitnessHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/BiographiesHistory/The AmericasHistory/United StatesHistory/WorldNews & Public AffairsNews & Public Affairs/SportsRegionRegion/Latin AmericaRegion/North AmericaRegion/United StatesThe exceptional life and career of Puerto Rican baseball star Roberto Clemente.tv-pgCultureCulture/CommunitiesCulture/People & ProfilesCulture/Sports & RecreationCulture/TravelCulture/TV & RadioHealth & WellnessHealth & Wellness/Sports & FitnessHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/BiographiesHistory/The AmericasHistory/United StatesHistory/WorldNews & Public AffairsNews & Public Affairs/SportsRegionRegion/Latin AmericaRegion/North AmericaRegion/United Stateshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1125268583/A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and personal tragedy. From Joseph Kennedy's rise on Wall Street, through John, Robert and Edward's successes and scandals, the family has left a storied political legacy.http://video.pbs.org/video/1125268583/Mon, 18 May 2009 09:44:30 -0700HistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/BiographiesHistory/United StatesNews & Public AffairsNews & Public Affairs/PoliticsA saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and personal tragedy.tv-pgHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/BiographiesHistory/United StatesNews & Public AffairsNews & Public Affairs/Politicshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1120420245/On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled into the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Within hours, some 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement activists had seized the few major buildings in town. The occupation of Wounded Knee had begun. Demanding redress for grievances--some going back more than 100 years--the protesters captured the world's attention for 71 gripping days.http://video.pbs.org/video/1120420245/Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:08:37 -0700HistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesAmerican Indian Movement activists demand redress for grievances.tv-pgHistoryHistory/20th & 21st Centurieshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1114357064/Born around 1820, Geronimo grew into a leading warrior and healer. But after his tribe was relocated to an Arizona reservation in 1872, he became a focus of the fury of terrified white settlers, and of the growing tensions that divided Apaches struggling to survive under almost unendurable pressures.http://video.pbs.org/video/1114357064/Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:00:37 -0700HistoryHistory/19th CenturyHistory/BiographiesHistory/United StatesA leading warrior and healer.tv-pgNative AmericanHistoryHistory/19th CenturyHistory/BiographiesHistory/United Stateshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1101800846/On May 26, 1838, federal troops forced thousands of Cherokee from their homes in the Southeastern United States, driving them toward Indian Territory in Eastern Oklahoma. More than 4,000 died of disease and starvation along the way.http://video.pbs.org/video/1101800846/Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:00:28 -0700HistoryHistory/17th CenturyHistory/United StatesTroops forced thousands of Cherokee from their homes in the Southeastern United States.tv-pgNative AmericanHistoryHistory/17th CenturyHistory/United Stateshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1097943308/Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa came closer than anyone since to creating an Indian nation that would exist alongside and separate from the United States. The dream of an independent Indian state may have died at the Battle of the Thames, when Tecumseh was killed fighting alongside his British allies, but the great Shawnee warrior would live on as a potent symbol of Native pride and pan-Indian identity.http://video.pbs.org/video/1097943308/Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:00:28 -0700HistoryHistory/19th CenturyHistory/United StatesThe great Shawnee warrior lives on as a symbol of Native pride and pan-Indian identity.tv-pgNative American, ColonistHistoryHistory/19th CenturyHistory/United Stateshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1097935833/In March of 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, sat down to negotiate with a ragged group of English colonists. Hungry, dirty, and sick, the pale-skinned foreigners were struggling to stay alive; they were in desperate need of Native help.http://video.pbs.org/video/1097935833/Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:00:29 -0700HistoryHistory/17th CenturyHistory/United StatesIn March of 1621, the Wampanoag sat down to negotiate with English colonists.tv-pgNative American, ColonistHistoryHistory/17th CenturyHistory/United Stateshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1049426140/The legendary trapper, scout and soldier helped map the Oregon Trail. The ultimate frontiersman, Carson inspired popular novels before being associated with the "Long Walk" of the Navajo people.http://video.pbs.org/video/1049426140/Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:11:50 -0700CultureHistoryHistory/19th CenturyHistory/BiographiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/North AmericaThe legendary trapper, scout and soldier helped map the Oregon Trail.tv-pgNew Mexico, war, Native Americans, wild west, Oregon Trail, frontier, navajo, death march, dime novel, scout, Taos, trapperCultureHistoryHistory/19th CenturyHistory/BiographiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/North Americahttp://video.pbs.org/video/1049390462/A peanut farmer who rose to become America's thirty-ninth president, Jimmy Carter was a failure in his single term in office. He turned to humanitarian work as an ex-president.http://video.pbs.org/video/1049390462/Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:11:52 -0700HistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/United StatesPart of the award-winning "The Presidents" collection.tv-pgpresident, politics, segregation, 1976 election, sharecropper, Shah of Iran, David Peace Accord, Iran HostagesHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/United Stateshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1049423655/In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine.http://video.pbs.org/video/1049423655/Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:11:52 -0700Health & WellnessHealth & Wellness/Mental HealthHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesScienceScience/MedicalTechnologyTechnology/MedicalDr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy.tv-14psychiatric, lobotomy, neuroscience, Ethics, Walter Freeman, mental illness, ice-pick, transorbital, medical controversyHealth & WellnessHealth & Wellness/Mental HealthHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesScienceScience/MedicalTechnologyTechnology/Medicalhttp://video.pbs.org/video/1049405787/The story of a founding father who laid the groundwork for the nation's modern economy -- including the banking system and Wall Street. He was also a primary author of the Federalist Papers.http://video.pbs.org/video/1049405787/Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:11:53 -0700HistoryHistory/18th CenturyHistory/BiographiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/United StatesThe story of a founding father who laid the groundwork for the nation's modern economy.tv-pgwar, colonies, Founding Fathers, revolutionaries, patriotism, federalists papers, constitution, debt; federalism, duel, aaron burrHistoryHistory/18th CenturyHistory/BiographiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/United Stateshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1049406398/William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's legendary exploits helped create the myth of the American West that still endures today.http://video.pbs.org/video/1049406398/Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:11:51 -0700CultureHistoryHistory/19th CenturyHistory/United StatesPerforming ArtsRegionRegion/North AmericaAmerican Experience's portrait of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's legendary exploits.tv-pgNative Americans, wild west, kansas, u.s. army, plains indians, West, frontier, show business, annie oakley, sitting bull, buffaloCultureHistoryHistory/19th CenturyHistory/United StatesPerforming ArtsRegionRegion/North Americahttp://video.pbs.org/video/1049390486/Pioneering researchers attempting to conceive babies through in vitro fertilization faced daunting obstacles and much controversy before the world's first test tube baby was born on July 25, 1978.http://video.pbs.org/video/1049390486/Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:11:52 -0700CultureHealth & WellnessHealth & Wellness/BiologyHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesNews & Public AffairsNews & Public Affairs/HealthNews & Public Affairs/Social IssuesRegionRegion/United StatesScienceScience/BiologyTechnologyTechnology/MedicalResearchers face controversy while conceiving babies through in vitro fertilization.tv-pgscience, genetics, pregnancy, medicine, Ethics, Family Issues, in vitro fertilization, infertility, experimentCultureHealth & WellnessHealth & Wellness/BiologyHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesNews & Public AffairsNews & Public Affairs/HealthNews & Public Affairs/Social IssuesRegionRegion/United StatesScienceScience/BiologyTechnologyTechnology/Medicalhttp://video.pbs.org/video/1049430624/The dramatic story of the construction of New York City's Grand Central Terminal in 1913, lauded as the greatest railroad terminal in the world, with electrified train service under the city streets.http://video.pbs.org/video/1049430624/Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:11:53 -0700CultureCulture/TravelHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/United StatesTechnologyTechnology/EngineeringTechnology/TransportationThe dramatic story of the construction of New York City's Grand Central Terminal.tv-gtransportation, railroads, New York, Vanderbilt, Park AvenueCultureCulture/TravelHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/United StatesTechnologyTechnology/EngineeringTechnology/Transportationhttp://video.pbs.org/video/1174115155/In the summer of 1950 Wytheville, VA realized the nation's worst medical fears. An outbreak of Infantile Paralysis, commonly known as Polio, swept through a small town of 5,500 in which 40 percent of residents had not yet reached their eighteenth birthday. Highly contagious, just in time for summer vacation, the devastating neurodegenerative disease had chosen its next target.http://video.pbs.org/video/1174115155/Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:58:37 -0700CultureHealth & WellnessHealth & Wellness/BiologyHealth & Wellness/Health ScienceHealth & Wellness/Public HealthHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/United StatesScienceScience/BiologyScience/MedicalTechnologyTechnology/MedicalIn the 1950's a Polio outbreak swept the U.S., devastating communities nationwide.tv-pgpolio, vaccine, Jonas Salk, epidemic, eradication, research, public health, iron lungCultureHealth & WellnessHealth & Wellness/BiologyHealth & Wellness/Health ScienceHealth & Wellness/Public HealthHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/United StatesScienceScience/BiologyScience/MedicalTechnologyTechnology/Medicalhttp://video.pbs.org/video/1174233882/In the Spring of 1954, the U.S. government put J. Robert Oppenheimer, the country's preeminent atomic scientist and the man behind the atomic bomb, on trial for national loyalty. The setting was a hearing to determine the status of Opppenheimer's security clearance, but the drama that unfolded was a parade of all the fears of a paranoid Cold War government desperate not to be outgunned.http://video.pbs.org/video/1174233882/Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:10:35 -0700HistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/Asia-PacificHistory/BiographiesHistory/United StatesHistory/War & EspionageScienceTechnologyTechnology/EngineeringThe man behind the atomic bomb is put on trial for suspected communist ties in 1954.tv-pgatomic bomb, Cold War, World War II, manhattan project, los alamos, hiroshima, atomic energy commission, communistHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/Asia-PacificHistory/BiographiesHistory/United StatesHistory/War & EspionageScienceTechnologyTechnology/Engineeringhttp://video.pbs.org/video/979907571/This biography examines the life and career of our 41st president, from his service in World War II to his days in the Oval Office with the fall of the Berlin Wall, race riots in LA and the breakup of the Soviet Union.http://video.pbs.org/video/979907571/Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:33:37 -0700CultureCulture/People & ProfilesHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/North AmericaPart of the award-winning The Presidents collection.tv-pgCultureCulture/People & ProfilesHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/North Americahttp://video.pbs.org/video/979746298/From ending the Vietnam War and improving relations with China and the Soviet Union, and finally, his resignation in the face of impeachment, Richard Nixon was a tragically insecure man with a bold vision.http://video.pbs.org/video/979746298/Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:41:26 -0700CultureCulture/People & ProfilesHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesNews & Public AffairsNews & Public Affairs/GovernmentRegionRegion/United StatesPart of the award-winning The Presidents collection.tv-pgpresident, politics, Communism, war, Cold War, WatergateCultureCulture/People & ProfilesHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesNews & Public AffairsNews & Public Affairs/GovernmentRegionRegion/United Stateshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1049332797/Franklin Delano Roosevelt restored hope after the Great Depression and led the nation during World War II.http://video.pbs.org/video/1049332797/Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:11:53 -0700HistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/North AmericaRegion/United StatesPart of the award-winning The Presidents collection.nrpresident, politics, war, New Deal, economy, Great Depression, polioHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesHistory/United StatesRegionRegion/North AmericaRegion/United Stateshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1173482422/American Experience presents Walt Whitman, a two-hour documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Mark Zwonitzer (Jesse James, The Massie Affair), featuring Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper as the voice of America's first great poet. Pulitzer Prize-winning poets, novelists and essayists recite some of Whitman's most important works, and reflect upon his enduring influence.http://video.pbs.org/video/1173482422/Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:45:17 -0700Arts & LiteratureArts & Literature/19th CenturyArts & Literature/PoetryArts & Literature/WritingCultureCulture/People & ProfilesHistoryHistory/19th CenturyHistory/United StatesNature & EnvironmentRegionRegion/United StatesA biography of Walt Whitman, of the most-recognized figures in American literary history.tv-pgPoetry, books, leaves of grass, walt whitman biography, civil war, Ralph Waldo EmersonArts & LiteratureArts & Literature/19th CenturyArts & Literature/PoetryArts & Literature/WritingCultureCulture/People & ProfilesHistoryHistory/19th CenturyHistory/United StatesNature & EnvironmentRegionRegion/United Stateshttp://video.pbs.org/video/1046522767/Examine the international race to develop biological weapons during World War II and the Cold War, the scientific and technical challenges scientists faced, and the moral dilemmas posed by their eventual success.http://video.pbs.org/video/1046522767/Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:48:36 -0700Health & WellnessHealth & Wellness/Public HealthHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesScienceScience/BiologyScience/MedicalThe story of the international race to develop biological weapons.tv-pgwar, Cold War, biological weapon, plague, germs, anthrax, genocide, human experimentsHealth & WellnessHealth & Wellness/Public HealthHistoryHistory/20th & 21st CenturiesScienceScience/BiologyScience/Medicalhttp://video.pbs.org/video/1309911294/Hoover Dam's electrical output helped build the ships and planes used in World War II; its water grew fruits and vegetables in California. It tamed a wild river and, for a time, renewed faith in American ingenuity and technology.http://video.pbs.org/video/1309911294/Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:36:50 -0800HistoryHistory/United StatesNature & EnvironmentNature & Environment/EnvironmentRegionRegion/United StatesTechnologyTechnology/EngineeringHoover Dam tamed a wild river and renewed faith in American ingenuity and technology.tv-pgengineering, Great Depression, desert, 1930s, Herbert Hoover, Lake MeadHistoryHistory/United StatesNature & EnvironmentNature & Environment/EnvironmentRegionRegion/United StatesTechnologyTechnology/Engineering