PBS American Experience

In the predawn hours of March 28, 1979, a reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, began to overheat. The...

Release : 1999.02.22
Popularity : 1.351

Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off feat and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely...

Release : 2022.05.24
Popularity : 2.289

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the...

Release : 2018.02.06
Popularity : 1.813

Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses,...

Release : 2017.04.10
Popularity : 0.715

Based on David Maraniss's book They Marched into Sunlight, a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that...

Release : 2005.10.17
Popularity : 0.923

The story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley who, determined to banish dangerous substances from dinner tables, took on the powerful food...

Release : 2020.01.28
Popularity : 1.519

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India's famine problem but would go on to lead a...

Release : 2020.04.21
Popularity : 0.671

He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and...

Release : 2006.02.06
Popularity : 0.917

Explore the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of one of the most beloved, enduring and classic American narratives. By 1900, when...

Release : 2021.04.19
Popularity : 1.267

Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, he built...

Release : 2021.05.17
Popularity : 0.454

Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita spent ten months studying The Super Outbreak of 1974, which was the most intense tornado outbreak on...

Release : 2020.05.19
Popularity : 0.441

This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in...

Release : 2008.04.14
Popularity : 0.986

This is the story of a group of 514 prisoners of war from the Bataan Death March and how they were rescued near the end of the war. The reason this...

Release : 2003.07.07
Popularity : 0.567

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power after a stunning victory in an election no one...

Release : 2020.01.06
Popularity : 0.411

MacArthur is a 1999 television documentary film about Douglas MacArthur, a United States General of the Army. Produced by PBS for The American...

Release : 1999.05.17
Popularity : 0.398

The feud between the Hatfields and McCoys is perhaps the most famous family conflict in American history. As legend has it, two neighboring families...

Release : 2019.09.10
Popularity : 0.295

The history of the Florida Everglades and the efforts to reclaim, control and preserve the vast area once viewed as a wasteland.

Release : 2019.01.15
Popularity : 0.06