Episode guide
American Experience: Season 27
11 episodes · first aired Jan 5, 2015
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- 1 Ripley: Believe It or Not Jan 6, 2015 · 55m Robert Ripley's obsession with the odd and keen eye for the curious made him one of the most successful men in America during the Great Depression. Over three decades, his Believe It or…
- 2 Klansville, USA Jan 13, 2015 · 55m The rise of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina during the 1960s is recalled. In 1963, Bob Jones Sr. started the state's chapter for the racist organization, and grew its membership to more…
- 3 Edison Jan 27, 2015 · 55m EDISON explores the complex alchemy that accounts for the enduring celebrity of America's most famous inventor, offering new perspectives on the man and his milieu, and illuminating not…
- 4 The Big Burn Feb 3, 2015 · 55m In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were…
- 5 The Forgotten Plague Feb 10, 2015 · 55m By the dawn of the 19th century, the most deadly killer in human history, tuberculosis, had killed one in seven of all the people who had ever lived. Throughout the 1800s, the disease…
- 6 Last Days In Vietnam Apr 28, 2015 · 1h 54m The North Vietnamese Army was nearing Saigon and the South Vietnamese resistance was at a low. Nearly 5,000 Americans still needed to remove from South Vietnam, but their South Vietnamese…
- 7 Blackout Jul 14, 2015 · 55m First responders, journalists, shop owners, those inside the pressure-packed control center of Con Edison on West End Avenue, and other New Yorkers tell about what happened when the lights…
- 8 Walt Disney (1) Sep 14, 2015 · 55m In 1966, the year Walt Disney died, 240 million people saw a Disney movie, 100 million tuned in to a Disney television program, 80 million bought Disney merchandise, and close to seven…
- 9 Walt Disney (2) Sep 15, 2015 · 55m In 1966, the year Walt Disney died, 240 million people saw a Disney movie, 100 million tuned in to a Disney television program, 80 million bought Disney merchandise, and close to seven…
- 10 American Comandante Nov 17, 2015 · 55m When William Morgan was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961, his strange story seemed to vanish from the popular imagination as quickly as it had appeared; it was lost in…
- 11 The Pilgrims Nov 24, 2015 · 55m The challenges the Pilgrims faced in making new lives for themselves still resonate almost 400 years later: the tensions of faith and freedom in American society, the separation of Church…