Episode guide
American Experience: Season 28
8 episodes · first aired Jan 18, 2016
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- 1 Bonnie & Clyde Jan 19, 2016 · 55m Though their exploits were romanticized, the Barrow gang was believed responsible for at least 23 murders, including two policemen, as well as numerous robberies and kidnappings. Discover…
- 2 The Mine Wars Jan 26, 2016 · 55m The story of small people going up against very big forces for a better nation. In the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a…
- 3 Murder of a President Feb 2, 2016 · 55m The story of James Garfield, one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president, and his assassination by a deluded madman named Charles Guiteau. The story follows Garfield's…
- 4 The Perfect Crime Feb 9, 2016 · 55m The shocking story of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.
- 5 Space Men Mar 1, 2016 · 55m In the 1950s and early '60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extreme forces of the space age long before NASA's acclaimed Mercury 7 would make headlines…
- 6 The Boys of '36 Aug 2, 2016 · 55m The story of nine working-class young men from the University of Washington who took the rowing world and America by storm when they captured the gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in…
- 7 Tesla Oct 18, 2016 · 55m Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Although eclipsed in fame by Edison and Marconi, it was…
- 8 The Battle of Chosin Nov 1, 2016 · 55m View the intense battle in intimate detail in this vivid narrative of combat and survival in the first major military clash of the Cold War.