Episode guide
American Experience: Season 30
9 episodes · first aired Jan 8, 2018
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- 1 Into the Amazon Jan 9, 2018 · 1h 54m The remarkable story of President Theodore Roosevelt’s journey with legendary Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored…
- 2 The Secret of Tuxedo Park Jan 16, 2018 · 55m In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his country’s most valuable military secret — a revolutionary radar component — to a Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee…
- 3 The Gilded Age Feb 6, 2018 · 1h 53m Meet the titans and barons of the glittering late 19th century, whose materialistic extravagance contrasted harshly with the poverty of the struggling workers who challenged them. The vast…
- 4 The Bombing of Wall Street Feb 13, 2018 · 55m Explore the story behind the first terrorist attack in the U.S., a mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in the nation’s financial center that left 38 dead – a crime that remains unsolved today.
- 5 The Island Murder Apr 17, 2018 · 55m In the summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against five nonwhite islanders. What unfolded in the following…
- 6 The Chinese Exclusion Act May 29, 2018 · 55m The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already there to become U.S. citizens.
- 7 The Circus (1) Oct 8, 2018 · 55m Explore the early days of this popular, influential and distinctly American form of entertainment during an era when master showmen P.T. Barnum, James Bailey and the Ringling Brothers…
- 8 The Circus (2) Oct 9, 2018 · 55m Revisit the heyday of this distinctly American form of entertainment when former rivals Barnum, Bailey and the Ringling Brothers joined forces to present the “greatest show on earth” in…
- 9 The Eugenics Crusade Oct 16, 2018 · 55m The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely –– and largely unknown –– campaign to breed a “better” American race, tracing the rise of the movement that turned the fledgling…