Episode guide
American Experience: Season 29
8 episodes · first aired Jan 10, 2017
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- 1 Command and Control Jan 10, 2017 · 55m An account of an incident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Ark., in 1980 that almost caused the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead 600 times more…
- 2 Rachel Carson Jan 24, 2017 · 55m She set out to save a species...us. An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world.
- 3 The Race Underground Jan 31, 2017 · 55m The dramatic story of the country's first subway.
- 4 Oklahoma City Feb 7, 2017 · 55m On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by literature and ideas of the radical right, killed 168, and injured 675 others.
- 5 Ruby Ridge Feb 14, 2017 · 55m A riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement.
- 6 The Great War: Part 1 Apr 10, 2017 · 55m Part 1 of 3. President Woodrow Wilson vowed to keep the U.S. out of World War I after hostilities erupted in Europe in August 1914. It was a promise he kept until 1917, when the Germans…
- 7 The Great War: Part 2 Apr 11, 2017 · 55m Part 2 of 3. America's entry into World War I is recalled, including the breathtaking speed of mobilization and the profound transformations required for America to play a central role in…
- 8 The Great War: Part 3 Apr 12, 2017 · 55m Part 3 of 3. In the fall of 1918: a major American offensive that could bring a swift end to the war, a lost U.S. battalion surrounded by German forces, a deadly flu epidemic on the…