Introduction
American Experience, originally titled ‘The American Experience’, is an American television programme and a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary series created by Peter McGhee.
Outline
The series airs documentaries about historic events or historical figures that had an impact upon the United States government or its citizens.
The show is produced primarily by WGBH-TV, a television station and PBS affiliate located in Boston, Massachusetts.
WGBH-TV creates non-commercial educational programmes and distributes them on public television stations throughout the United States.
However, other PBS affiliate stations, such as WNET in New York City, have co-produced episodes for the television series.
Since the programme’s debut on 04 October 1988, American Experience has broadcast 342 episodes and has been a recipient of over 265 broadcast and web awards.
The programme’s thirty-first season premiered on 15 January 2019.
American Experience Series
- Series 01:
- Episode 02: Radio Bikini.
- Episode 05: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.
- Series 02:
- Episode 04: The Great War: 1918.
- Episode 12: Orphans of the Storm.
- Series 04:
- Episode 01: LBJ (Parts 1-2)
- Episode 02: LBJ (Parts 3-4).
- Episode 03: The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry.
- Episode 06: Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance.
- Episode 10: Love in the Cold War.
- Series 05:
- Episode 04: Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II.
- Episode 05: George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn’t Be King.
- Episode 06: Last Stand at Little Big Horn.
- Series 06:
- Episode 02: The Hunt for Pancho Villa.
- Episode 03: Eisenhower (Parts 1-2).
- Episode 07: America and the Holocaust.
- Episode 08: D-Day.
- Series 07:
- Episode 01: FDR (Parts 1-2).
- Episode 02: FDR (Parts 3-4).
- Episode 05: Battle of the Bulge.
- Series 08:
- Episode 09: Spy in the Sky.
- Series 09:
- Episode 11: Vietnam: A Television History (Part 1).
- Episode 11: Vietnam: A Television History (Part 2).
- Episode 12: Vietnam: A Television History (Part 3).
- Episode 13: Vietnam: A Television History (Part 4).
- Episode 14: Vietnam: A Television History (Part 5).
- Episode 15: Vietnam: A Television History (Part 6).
- Episode 16: Vietnam: A Television History (Part 7).
- Episode 17: Vietnam: A Television History (Part 8).
- Episode 18: Vietnam: A Television History (Part 9).
- Episode 19: Vietnam: A Television History (Part 10).
- Episode 20: Vietnam: A Television History (Part 11).
- Series 11:
- Episode 02: Race for the Superbomb.
- Episode 08: MacArthur (Part 1).
- Episode 09: MacArthur (Part 2).
- Episode 10: Fly Girls.
- Series 13:
- Episode 04: Return with Honor.
- Episode 03: War Letters.
- Series 14:
- Episode 04: Woodrow Wilson (Part 1).
- Episode 05: Woodrow Wilson (Part 2).
- Episode 13: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 1).
- Episode 14: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2).
- Series 15:
- Episode 10: Daughter from Danang.
- Episode 12: Bataan Rescue.
- Series 16:
- Episode 02: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (Part 1).
- Episode 03: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (Part 2).
- Episode 05: Remember the Alamo.
- Series 17:
- Episode 04: Building the Alaska Highway.
- Episode 09: Victory in the Pacific.
- Series 18:
- Episode 01: Two Days in October.
- Episode 06: The Nuremberg Trials.
- Episode 13: The Man Behind Hitler.
- Series 19:
- Episode 07: The Berlin Airlift.
- Episode 08: The Living Weapon.
- Series 21:
- Episode 01: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- Episode 05: We Shall Remain 01: After the Mayflower.
- Episode 06: We Shall Remain 02: Tecumseh’s Vision.
- Episode 07: We Shall Remain 03: Trail of Tears.
- Episode 08: We Shall Remain 04: Geronimo.
- Episode 09: We Shall Remain 05: Wounded Knee.
- Series 22:
- Episode 03: The Bombing of Germany.
- Episode 06: My Lai.
- Series 23:
- Episode 04: Robert E. Lee.
- Series 24:
- Episode 02: Custer’s Last Stand.
- Episode 07: Jesse Owens.
- Episode 08: Death and the Civil War.
- Series 27:
- Episode 06: Last Days in Vietnam.
- Episode 10: American Comandante.
- Series 28:
- Episode 08: The Battle of Chosin.
- Series 29:
- Episode 01: Command and Control.
- Episode 05: Ruby Ridge.
- Episode 06: The Great War (Part 1).
- Episode 07: The Great War (Part 2).
- Episode 08: The Great War (Part 3).
- Series 30:
- Episode 02: The Secret of Tuxedo Park.
- Episode 05: The Island Murder.
- Series 31:
- Episode 02: Sealab.
- Series 32:
- Episode 04: George W. Bush, Part 01.
- Episode 05: George W. Bush, Part 02.
- Series 33:
- Episode 01: The Codebreaker.
- Episode 03: The Blinding of Isaac Woodard.
Production & Filming Details
- Creators: Peter McGhee, Henry Hampton, and Stephen Fitzmeyer.
- Production: PBS, WGBH-TV and WNET.
- Release Date: 04 October 1988 (US).
- Running time: 60 to 120 minutes.
- Country: US.
- Language: English.
YouTube Link
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