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American Experience (1988) is a documentary web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch American Experience online in HD.

American Experience — Storyline

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Cast & Crew

American Experience — Series Details

American Experience — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: The Great San Francisco Earthquake (1988-10-04) — From Enrico Caruso to the ordinary San Franciscan, this film presents vivid memories of those trapped in the terrifying event of 1906. Four hundred eighty square blocks were reduce
• E2: Radio Bikini (1988-10-11) — While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publicized nuclear tests. Seven hundred fifty cameras were shipped to Bikini
• E3: Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo (1988-10-18) — As a child in 1899, Angie Debo was taken to Oklahoma in a covered wagon. She would become her state's most controversial historian — her career threatened when she uncovered a cac
• E4: Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream (1988-10-25) — A touching memoir beginning with life in a small Minnesota town and taking us through a young man's early days as pacifist. Reporting on the rise of fascism in Europe, Sevareid, as
• E5: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1988-11-01) — An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and interviews with five, real-life "Rosies" about the reality of working in the defense plants during WWII, and t
• E6: Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys? (1988-11-08) — A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families who have lived in Big Piney for six generations. Although very much the same as it was one hundred years ago — toug
• E7: Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close (1988-11-15) — An intimate portrait of the Kennedy brothers and their confrontation with Alabama Governor George Wallace when he defied the courts by refusing to integrate the University in 1963.
• E8: Geronimo and the Apache Resistance (1988-11-22) — The story of a tragic collision of two civilizations, each with startlingly different views of one another. In 1886, 5,000 U.S. troops mobilized to capture this one man and his ban
• E9: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited (1988-11-29) — An updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, an American classic.
• E10: That Rhythm, Those Blues (1988-12-06) — The evolution of rhythm and blues through the careers of singers Ruth Brown and Charles Brown, from the 1940s into the 50s, with contemporary performances by both.
• E11: The Radio Priest (1988-12-13) — Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from Michigan, uses the new power of radio to become one of the first media stars; every Sunday he would broadcast his message rail
• E12: Hearts and Hands (1988-12-20) — The design and art of quilting yields intimate clues about the lives of 19th century women, who stitched their personal and political stories into these artifacts of history.
• E13: Views of a Vanishing Frontier (1988-12-27) — The journey of Prince Maximilian, German naturalist, and artist Karl Bodmer, who explored the Mississippi River area from 1832-34, meticulously documenting in paintings and journal
• E14: Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings (1989-01-03) — Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty narrates the story of her own Southern childhood and early artistic development in Jackson, Mississippi. Based on her best-selling book o
• E15: The World That Moses Built (1989-01-10) — From the late 1920s through the 1960s, Robert Moses held almost total power over the landscape of New York. He built bridges, highways, Jones Beach, Lincoln Center and the United N
• E16: Sins of Our Mothers (1989-01-17) — A Gothic tale of sin and redemption in 19th century New England. A small town in Maine reacts to the unconventional behavior of one of its young residents, a woman named Emeline Gu

Season 2

• E1: The Great Air Race of 1924 (1989-10-03) — The first around-the-world air race, sponsored by the Army Air Service to prove that the airplane had a commercial future, was the ultimate test of man and machine. Four pilots too
• E2: Demon Rum (1989-10-10) — Prohibition's effect on Detroit, Michigan, the first major American city to "go dry," where smuggling liquor across the Canadian border became the second largest indusry in town. A
• E3: A Family Gathering (1989-10-17) — Lise Yasui explores three generations of her Japanese-American family – from their immigration to Oregon in the early 1900s through their imprisonment in internment camps during Wo
• E4: The Great War: 1918 (1989-10-24) — All lingering 19th-century notions of the romance of battle were replaced by the terrible reality of 20th-century mechanized warfare. At Verdun, the French lost 300,000 men; at the
• E5: Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil (1989-10-31) — The tale of mavericks whose risk-taking, sweat and dreams changed an American industry. Starting with Spindletop, the first Texas gusher in 1902, rare archival film and interviews
• E6: Forever Baseball (1989-11-07) — There is hardly a city, town or village without a baseball diamond. More than a game, baseball is a tradition, rite of passage, an enduring passion, a code for understanding the cu
• E7: Mr. Sears' Catalogue (1989-11-14) — They started selling watches. Then Richard Sears and Alva Curtis Roebuck started a revolution — a "wish book" that made life on the farm a little easier and put consumer goods wit
• E8: Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven (1989-11-21) — A stunning film portrait of Yosemite National Park. The film's narration is taken from using the 1851 diary of the first expedition of soldiers into the sacred valley home of the A
• E9: Adam Clayton Powell (1989-11-28) — Affluent, handsome, light-skinned and blond, he could pass for white. But his message about "economics and jobs" would make him one of the most charismatic black leaders in the 20t
• E10: Journey to America (1989-12-05) — A tribute to the twelve million people who emigrated to the U.S. between 1890 and 1920. A recapturing of the journey through Europe to seaport towns, to the arrival in New York Har
• E11: Ballad of a Mountain Man (1989-12-12) — Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a pioneer folklorist who in the 1920s began a campaign to preserve mountain music and dance. He dignified what was known as "hillbilly music." Knocking on
• E12: Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989-12-19) — Born into slavery, she became a journalist and newspaper owner in Memphis, and was radicalized following the lynching of three friends. Her crusade against lynching led to death th
• E13: Orphans of the Storm (1989-12-26) — In the summer of 1940, as the German Luftwaffe began its assault on England, 10,000 British children were sent on a perilous sea voyage to safe havens in the United States. There,
• E14: Forbidden City, USA (1990-01-02) — Before WWII, San Francisco's Chinatown was a separate world, closed to outsiders, ruled by rigid homeland customs. But in the 1930s, second generation Chinese Americans defied cult
• E15: Battle for Wilderness (1990-01-09) — The first major battle for wilderness preservation erupted over the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Park in 1906. On the one side were the purists who argued that
• E16: Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad (1990-01-16) — Men and women, black and white, risked their lives to carve an elaborate network of escape routes out of slavery in the mid 1800s — trails and backroads, safehouses, river crossin

Season 3

• E1: Lindbergh (1990-08-27) — At 25, Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in Paris, the first man to fly across the Atlantic — handsome, talented, and brave — a hero. But the struggle to wear the mantle of legend wou
• E2: Nixon (1990-10-15) — He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House and then brought him down. One of the most enigmatic modern political figures,
• E3: God Bless America and Poland, Too (1990-10-22) — Frank Popiolek was 14 when he came to America in 1911, one of 2 million Polish immigrants who made the journey. He settled in Chicago and became a barber, instilling in his family
• E4: Insanity on Trial (1990-10-29) — On July 2, 1881, Charles Julius Guiteau shot and fatally wounded President James A. Garfield in the lobby of the Baltimore & Potomac train station in Washington, D.C. As sensationa
• E5: The Satellite Sky (1990-11-05) — Few events shocked America more than the news in 1957 that Russia had launched the first satellite. It was an assault on our national pride, even a threat to national security. Usi
• E6: The Crash of 1929 (1990-11-19) — In 1929, while the stock market was rising, there were few critics. It was a "New Era" when everyone could get rich. But it was a small group of bankers, brokers and speculators wh
• E7: The Iron Road (1990-11-26) — A tale of high adventure, enormous human effort and engineering brilliance. On May 2, 1869, when the last railroad spike was driven, bells in the churches of New York, Philadelphia
• E8: French Dance Tonight (1990-12-10) — When French settlers, exiled from Nova Scotia, migrated to Louisiana in the 1750s, they mixed with African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and others to create one of America's richest
• E9: After the Crash (1991-01-07) — After the stock market crashed in 1929, thousands suffered unemployment and poverty in the Great Depression. The most desperate year, 1932, brought World War I veterans' Bonus Marc
• E10: Los Mineros (1991-01-28) — The story of Mexican American miners — "los mineros" — whose pitched labor battles, beginning with the first strike in 1903, shaped the course of Arizona history. It was only in
• E11: Coney Island (1991-02-04) — Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny spit of New York real estate was internationally famous as the world's most remarkable ca

Season 4

• E1: LBJ (1) (1991-09-30) — LBJ's career started in 1938 when he was elected a congressman, one of the youngest ever. He was elected to the Senate in 1948 under a cloud of suspicion. LBJ won by only 87 votes.
• E2: LBJ (2) (1991-09-30) — Lyndon Johnson's ascension to the Presidency and the controversial events of his tenure such as the Great Society and the Vietnam War are chronicled here.
• E3: The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry (1991-10-07) — The first officially formed regiment of northern black soldiers who fought in the Civil War, the 54th's roster included shopkeepers, clerks, cobblers and seamen. They knew the eyes
• E4: Scandalous Mayor (1991-10-28) — James Michael Curley dominated Boston's politics for almost half a century, building a sophisticated political machine based on rhetoric, old-fashioned patronage and sheer personal
• E5: The Johnstown Flood (1991-11-04) — By an abandoned earthen dam, at a mountain resort 14 miles up the valley, the leaders of industry and their families created an exclusive summer retreat. But the structure of the d
• E6: Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance (1991-11-11) — The shock of what happened on December 7, 1941 has made Pearl Harbor a synonym for deceit and unpreparedness. Produced for the 50th anniversary, this examination of events shows th
• E7: G-Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover (1992-02-24) — The rise of the FBI from a minor government bureaucracy to the premiere law enforcement agency in the world under the controversial leadership of J. Edgar Hoover.
• E8: Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo (1991-12-09) — At a time when black and white musicians rarely performed together, when black musicians were exploited by record companies, Ellington was an international star. He made the Cotton
• E9: The Quiz Show Scandal (1992-01-06) — When CBS premiered The $64,000 Question in 1955, the show was more than a hit; it was a national phenomenon. More quiz shows followed. What the audience was to learn, much later, w
• E10: Love in the Cold War (1992-01-13) — Eugene Dennis fled to Moscow to avoid indictment and prison for his work for the American Communist Party in the late 1920s; his wife Peggy and 18-month-old son soon followed. In 1
• E11: Wild by Law (1992-02-10) — For years there was no federal law to protect the shrinking wilderness from encroaching industry and tourism, until three men dedicated their lives to finding a remedy. Robert Mars
• E12: Barnum's Big Top (1991-10-14) — P.T. Barnum was huckster, con man, promoter and entertainer. His American Museum featured ancient relics side by side with such "living curiosities" as lions, snakes, bearded ladie
• E13: In the White Man's Image (1992-02-17) — In 1875, in St. Augustine, Florida, an ambitious experiment was conceived — to teach Native Americans to become imitation white men. With the blessing of Congress, the first schoo

Season 5

• E1: The Kennedys (1): The Father, 1900-61 (1992-09-20) — No family has had such a powerful hold on the American imagination. A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and personal tragedy, the Kennedy story is unlike any other. From Jos
• E2: The Kennedys (2): The Sons, 1961-80 (1992-09-21) — No family has had such a powerful hold on the American imagination. A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and personal tragedy, the Kennedy story is unlike any other. From Jos
• E3: The Donner Party (1992-10-28) — Of all the 19th century pioneer stories, none exerts so powerful a hold on the American imagination as this, during the worst winter ever recorded in the High Sierras. In June, 184
• E4: Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II (1992-11-04) — An account of Black American soldiers in World War II who combated racism in the segregated military and on the home front. In April 1945, some Black American soldiers were among t
• E5: George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King (1992-11-18) — He was bumbling, yet ambitious. He volunteered to serve his country, but insisted on being reimbursed for expenses. He was the most famous general of the Revolution but a dismal ta
• E6: Last Stand at Little Big Horn (1992-11-25) — In 1876, when the U.S. Army planned its biggest Indian campaign yet against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, General George Custer led the chase. Custer and his 210 men were surprised
• E7: If You Knew Sousa (1993-01-11) — John Phillip Sousa became America's favorite bandmaster, but band music wasn't Sousa's only passion. He was the first to bring the classics — Verdi, Wagner, Puccini — to a burgeo
• E8: Simple Justice (1993-01-18) — Thirty years after the Supreme Court's "separate but equal" ruling, lawyer Charles Hamilton took over Howard University's rundown, segregated law school with the idea of training a
• E9: Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish (1993-02-08) — When he died in 1931 in a plane crash on his way to Hollywood to sign a film contract, the President called it a "national loss." The funeral was broadcast live on CBS Radio to Eur
• E10: Sit Down And Fight (1993-02-01) — In 1936, Walter Reuther led one of the bitterest, bloodiest battles ever fought in the history of the American labor movement. By sitting down and stopping the machinery of factory
• E11: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1993-02-15) — She had been a biologist for the federal government when she first took note of the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides, especially DDT. Magazines refused t
• E12: Goin' Back to T-Town (1993-03-01) — In Tulsa, the community of Greenwood was a place where blacks had some measure of financial, social and political independence. Burned to the ground in 1921 by angry whites, Greenw
• E20: Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian (1992-12-02) — When "Ishi," the last surviving member of a small Indian tribe, walked into the small California town of Oroville in 1911, he became a media curiosity and scientific "specimen." Th

Season 6

• E1: Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage (1993-10-27) — The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart was one of America's first celebrities. After only a few years as a pilot she became the best-known female flier in
• E2: The Hunt for Pancho Villa (1993-11-08) — Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, was the culmination of years of bloody incidents along the border. For Americans, it was the last straw. In 1916, General John Pershing
• E3: Eisenhower (1993-11-10) — Dwight D. Eisenhower was a decorated general, a skillful politician, a tough Cold War adversary and one of America's least understood presidents. Part of the award-winning Presiden
• E4: The Hurricane of '38 (1993-11-17) — The Hurricane of '38 chronicles the lives of fishermen, residents and vacationers on the day before the storm, following their stories through one of the greatest natural disasters
• E5: Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian (1994-01-19) — The last surviving member of a California Indian tribe became a sensation in 1911, but the contact brought him terrible physical and psychological consequences.
• E6: Malcolm X: Make It Plain (1994-01-26) — If any man expressed the anger, struggle and insistence of black people for freedom in the sixties, it was Malcolm X. In Omaha, he was Malcolm Little; later he became "Detroit Red"
• E7: America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference (1994-04-06) — Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust, from Kristallnacht in 1938 through the liberation of the death camps in 1945. For a short time, the
• E8: D-Day Remembered (1994-05-25) — It was truly a "battle of the world," a pivotal turning point in history, and the most dramatic single event in WWII. A military operation fraught with incalculable risk; the secre

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does American Experience have? 37 season(s) with 396 episodes.

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