American Experience - Season 8
Season 8
Episodes
Murder of the Century
The nation is fascinated by the high-profile murder of a famous architect, apparently because of jealousy over a popular female stage performer.
Edison's Miracle of Light
Inventor Thomas A. Edison experiments with electricity, long-burning filaments, and glass bulbs to give America an alternative to gas lights.
Chicago 1968
The Orphan Trains
The story of orphaned inner-city children shipped to rural locations and new lives as part of a social engineering experiment.
Freedom on My Mind
Daley: The Last Boss
Biography of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, considered one of the last major heads of big city "machine" politics in the United States.
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Orson Welles' movie stirs the ire of publisher William Randolph Hearst, the man who the film was patterned after.
The Wright Stuff
The story of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the earliest days of aviation.
Spy in the Sky
The Cold War forces the United States to build very high altitude U2 planes to record photographs of opposing nations.
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