American Experience - Season 2

American Experience - Season 2

Season 2

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Episodes15
Datesoct. 3, 1989 - janv. 16, 1990
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Episodes

The Great Air Race of 1924
Season 2Episode 160 min

The Great Air Race of 1924

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 took off in single-engine, open-cockpit planes; 175 days later, two remaining pilots would land where they'd begun, in Seattle.
oct. 3, 1989
Demon Rum
Season 2Episode 260 min

Demon Rum

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 humorous, wild tale related by residents who lived through this national experiment which lasted from 1920 to 1933.
oct. 10, 1989
A Family Gathering
Season 2Episode 360 min

A Family Gathering

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 World War Two.
oct. 17, 1989
The Great War: 1918
Season 2Episode 460 min

The Great War: 1918

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 Somme, the English lost one million. Against this setting, America reluctantly sent its boys to fight. The wrenching and heroic accounts of U.S. soldiers and nurses who served in the closing battles of the bloodiest war of the century.
oct. 31, 1989
Forever Baseball
Season 2Episode 560 min

Forever Baseball

nov. 7, 1989
Mr. Sears' Catalogue
Season 2Episode 660 min

Mr. Sears' Catalogue

nov. 14, 1989
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
Season 2Episode 760 min

Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven

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 within reach of every American. A story of entrepreneurial triumph as well as an affectionate portrait of America from the 1890s through the 1920s.
nov. 21, 1989
Adam Clayton Powell
Season 2Episode 860 min

Adam Clayton Powell

nov. 28, 1989
Journey to America
Season 2Episode 960 min

Journey to America

déc. 5, 1989
Ballad of a Mountain Man
Season 2Episode 1060 min

Ballad of a Mountain Man

déc. 12, 1989
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
Season 2Episode 1160 min

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice

déc. 19, 1989
Orphans of the Storm
Season 2Episode 1260 min

Orphans of the Storm

déc. 26, 1989
Forbidden City, USA
Season 2Episode 1360 min

Forbidden City, USA

janv. 2, 1990
Battle for Wilderness
Season 2Episode 1460 min

Battle for Wilderness

janv. 9, 1990
Roots of Resistance: A Story of the Underground Railroad
Season 2Episode 1560 min

Roots of Resistance: A Story of the Underground Railroad

janv. 16, 1990

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