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American Experience, television's most-watched history series, brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form our nation. Get stories to go in this podcast, or tune in to PBS Monday nights. American Experience is produced by WGBH Boston.
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The Berlin Airlift | American Experience
A veteran pilot describes his experiences during the first battle of the Cold War and the largest humanitarian campaign the world had ever seen.
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The Gold Rush | American Experience
Filmmaker Randall MacLowry brings to life the story of The Gold Rush in this American Experience film.
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The Great Fever | American Experience
Three physicians discuss the past and future of yellow fever, a disease that terrorized the United States for more than two hundred years, killing an estimated 100,000 in the nineteenth century alone.
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Eyes on the Prize | American Experience
Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life.
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The Center Of The World: New York: A Documentary Film | American Experience
Carol Willis, the director of New York's Skyscraper Museum, reflects on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, and plans for Ground Zero.
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A preview of New Orleans | American Experience
Filmmaker Stephen Ives spent a year making a PBS documentary on the history of a unique American city New Orleans.
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Hoover Dam | American Experience
Rising more than 700 feet above the raging waters of the Colorado River, it was called one of the greatest engineering works in history.
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Mount Rushmore | American Experience
Meet the daring workers and the temperamental artist who created the world's largest piece of sculpture, Mount Rushmore.
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Coney Island | American Experience
At the turn of the 20th century, a tiny spit of land at the foot of Brooklyn had become the most extravagant playground in America.
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Fourth of July 1826 | American Experience
Historians David McCullough and Joseph Ellis discuss the amazing circumstances surrounding the deaths of former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on July 4th, 1826.
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Behind the Scenes: Season 18 viewer mail | American Experience
American Experience executive producer Mark Samels discusses viewer emails about two of the past season's most popular programs.
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Behind the Scenes: The Man Behind Hitler | American Experience
American Experience executive producer Mark Samels and German filmmaker Michael Kloft discuss "The Man Behind Hitler," a new documentary based on the 7,000-page diary kept by Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
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Golden Gate Bridge | American Experience
Workers and historians describe the construction of the world's longest suspension bridge above the dangerously churning waters at the entrance to San Francisco Bay.
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Annie Oakley | American Experience
Annie Oakley thrilled audiences around the world with her daring shooting, a sport that was traditionally a male domain.
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Remember the Alamo | American Experience
A conflict in Texas pitted brother against brother and devastated the community.
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The Alaska Pipeline | American Experience
In the late 1960s, Native Alaskans sought a land claims settlement from Congress before work began on the Alaska Pipeline.
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The Great San Francisco Earthquake | American Experience
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 remains a point of reference for earthquake science and building safety even today.
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The Boy in the Bubble | American Experience
Carol Anne Vetter Demaret, the mother of a boy born with severe immunodeficiency who was placed in a protective bubble, talks about the events leading up to her son David's birth.
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Eugene O'Neill | American Experience
Actor Christopher Plummer brings Eugene O'Neill's words to life in a new documentary on O'Neill, America's greatest playwright.
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Murder of the Century | American Experience
In 1906 Harry Thaw murdered Stanford White over the beautiful showgirl Evelyn Nesbit. The gripping New York society scandal was reported "to the ends of the civilized globe."
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