American Experience - Season 20

American Experience - Season 20

Season 20

Network
Episodes18
DatesJan 14, 2008 - May 6, 2008
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Episodes

Oswald's Ghost
Season 20Episode 160 min

Oswald's Ghost

Few Americans then or now accept that a lone, inconsequential gunman could bring down a president and alter history. In that breach, a culture of conspiracy has arisen that points to sinister forces at work in the shadows. Drawing upon rarely seen archival footage and interviews with key participants, Oswald's Ghost takes a fresh look at Kennedy's assassination, the public's reaction to the tragedy, and the government investigations that instead of calming fears lead to a widespread loss of trust in the institutions that govern our society.
Jan 14, 2008
The Lobotomist
Season 20Episode 260 min

The Lobotomist

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.
Jan 21, 2008
Eyes on the Prize II: The Time Has Come
Season 20Episode 360 min

Eyes on the Prize II: The Time Has Come

After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the civil rights movement: the insistent call for power. Malcolm X takes an eloquent nationalism to urban streets as a younger generation of black leaders listens. In the South, Stokely Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) move from "Freedom Now!" to "Black Power!" as the fabric of the traditional movement changes.
Feb 3, 2008
Eyes on the Prize II: Two Societies
Season 20Episode 460 min

Eyes on the Prize II: Two Societies

A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd Street that forever changed midtown Manhattan.
Feb 3, 2008
Grand Central
Season 20Episode 560 min

Grand Central

Feb 4, 2008
Eyes on the Prize II: Power!
Season 20Episode 660 min

Eyes on the Prize II: Power!

Feb 10, 2008
Eyes on the Prize II: The Promised Land
Season 20Episode 760 min

Eyes on the Prize II: The Promised Land

Feb 10, 2008
Eyes on the Prize II: Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More
Season 20Episode 860 min

Eyes on the Prize II: Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native American women, yet led a brutal war against the Navajo. When the West was a mystery to most Americans, Carson mastered it, and his expertise made him not only famous, but also sought after. Eventually, by helping to spur a migration that would change the West forever, he unwittingly became an agent in the destruction of the life he loved.
Feb 17, 2008
Eyes on the Prize II: A Nation of Law?
Season 20Episode 960 min

Eyes on the Prize II: A Nation of Law?

Feb 17, 2008
Kit Carson
Season 20Episode 1060 min

Kit Carson

Feb 18, 2008
Eyes on the Prize II: The Keys to the Kingdom
Season 20Episode 1160 min

Eyes on the Prize II: The Keys to the Kingdom

Feb 24, 2008
Eyes on the Prize II: Back to the Movement
Season 20Episode 1260 min

Eyes on the Prize II: Back to the Movement

Feb 24, 2008
Buffalo Bill
Season 20Episode 1360 min

Buffalo Bill

Feb 25, 2008
Minik: The Lost Eskimo
Season 20Episode 1460 min

Minik: The Lost Eskimo

Mar 31, 2008
Walt Whitman
Season 20Episode 1560 min

Walt Whitman

Apr 14, 2008
Roberto Clemente
Season 20Episode 1660 min

Roberto Clemente

On December 31, 1972, Roberto Clemente, a thirty-eight-year-old baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates, boarded a DC-7 aircraft loaded with relief supplies for survivors of a catastrophic earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua. Concerned over reports that the Nicaraguan dictatorship was misusing aid shipments, Clemente, a native of nearby Puerto Rico, hoped his involvement would persuade the government to distribute relief packages to the more than 300,000 people affected by the disaster. Shortly after takeoff, the overloaded aircraft plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, just one mile from the Puerto Rican coast. Roberto Clemente's body was never recovered.

Roberto Clemente is an in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination to become baseball's first Latino superstar. Featuring interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning authors David Maraniss and George F. Will, Clemente's wife Vera, Baseball Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda, and former teammates, the documentary presents an intimate and revealing portrait of a man whose passion and grace made him a legend.

Apr 21, 2008
George H.W. Bush: CAVU
Season 20Episode 1760 min

George H.W. Bush: CAVU

When George. H.W. Bush left the Oval Office in 1992, rejected after one tumultuous presidential term, his 30-year career in public service came to an abrupt and unexpected end. Despite soaring approval ratings following military victory in the Persian Gulf, his years as president after the war were marked by almost unrelieved decline. A sluggish economy and an earlier decision to raise taxes, despite an explicit campaign oath, led to his defeat. By the end of his term, many observers dismissed him as an artifact of an irrelevant Cold War past.

George H.W. Bush presents the first in-depth assessment of the 41st president of the United States, drawing upon unparalleled access to figures in Bush's private and public life, to reveal Bush as a pivotal player during a critical moment in American and world history and in a powerful political dynasty. Bush's personal letters, and interviews with his closest advisors and prominent critics inform the film, including First Lady Barbara Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Mikhail Gorbachev, and more. Part 1 of 2.

May 5, 2008
George H.W. Bush: Echoes of the Wise Men
Season 20Episode 1860 min

George H.W. Bush: Echoes of the Wise Men

When George. H.W. Bush left the Oval Office in 1992, rejected after one tumultuous presidential term, his 30-year career in public service came to an abrupt and unexpected end. Despite soaring approval ratings following military victory in the Persian Gulf, his years as president after the war were marked by almost unrelieved decline. A sluggish economy and an earlier decision to raise taxes, despite an explicit campaign oath, led to his defeat. By the end of his term, many observers dismissed him as an artifact of an irrelevant Cold War past.

George H.W. Bush presents the first in-depth assessment of the 41st president of the United States, drawing upon unparalleled access to figures in Bush's private and public life, to reveal Bush as a pivotal player during a critical moment in American and world history and in a powerful political dynasty. Bush's personal letters, and interviews with his closest advisors and prominent critics inform the film, including First Lady Barbara Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Mikhail Gorbachev, and more. Part 2 of 2.

May 6, 2008

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