American Experience - Season 25

American Experience - Season 25

Season 25

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Episodes8
DatesJan 8, 2013 - Nov 12, 2013
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Episodes

The Abolitionists: From Courage to Freedom
Season 25Episode 160 min

The Abolitionists: From Courage to Freedom

The story of how abolitionist allies William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.
Jan 8, 2013
The Abolitionists: Before Brother Fought Brother
Season 25Episode 260 min

The Abolitionists: Before Brother Fought Brother

See how the activities of the five principals intersect and affect the anti-slavery movement.
Jan 15, 2013
The Abolitionists: A House Dividing
Season 25Episode 360 min

The Abolitionists: A House Dividing

Examine the forces leading to war and to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Jan 22, 2013
Henry Ford
Season 25Episode 460 min

Henry Ford

An absorbing life story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth of the American auto industry with its long history of struggles between labor and management, and a thought-provoking reminder of how Ford's automobile forever changed the way we work, where we live, and our ideas about individuality, freedom, and possibility.
Jan 29, 2013
Silicon Valley
Season 25Episode 560 min

Silicon Valley

Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age.
Feb 5, 2013
War of the Worlds
Season 25Episode 660 min

War of the Worlds

An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.

Oct 29, 2013
JFK: Part 1
Season 25Episode 760 min

JFK: Part 1

JFK presents a fresh look at an enigmatic man who remains one of the nation's most beloved and mourned leaders, John F. Kennedy. It offers a new perspective on his private life, his relationship with his wife, his close connection to his brother, Robert, and his bond with his father. JFK also reevaluates his strengths and weaknesses in the Oval Office as he navigated some of the most explosive events of the mid-twentieth century.

Nov 11, 2013
JFK: Part 2
Season 25Episode 860 min

JFK: Part 2

JFK presents a fresh look at an enigmatic man who remains one of the nation's most beloved and mourned leaders, John F. Kennedy. It offers a new perspective on his private life, his relationship with his wife, his close connection to his brother, Robert, and his bond with his father. JFK also reevaluates his strengths and weaknesses in the Oval Office as he navigated some of the most explosive events of the mid-twentieth century.

Nov 12, 2013

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