Episode guide
American Experience: Season 31
7 episodes · first aired Jan 14, 2019
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- 1 The Swamp Jan 15, 2019 · 55m The history of the Everglades is a dramatic yet little known story of humanity’s attempt to conquer nature. The Swamp, told through the lives of a handful of colorful and resolute…
- 2 Sealab Feb 12, 2019 · 55m In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was an audacious feat of engineering — a pressurized underwater habitat…
- 3 Chasing the Moon - A Place Beyond the Sky Jul 8, 2019 · 2h On 4 October 1957, Soviet scientists launched Sputnik 1 - a beach ball-sized, radio-transmitting aluminium alloy sphere - into orbit. The satellite caused a sensation. Amid Cold War…
- 4 Chasing the Moon - Earthrise Jul 9, 2019 · 2h What exactly was it going to take for America to beat the Soviets to the moon? Cold War tensions persisted, as rumours circulated that the Soviets were preparing to send an unmanned…
- 5 Chasing the Moon - Magnificent Desolation Jul 10, 2019 · 2h After the immediate celebration of 1968’s successful Apollo 8 mission, underlying questions about the space programme emerged with new intensity as politicized young Americans challenged…
- 6 Woodstock Aug 6, 2019 · 55m In August, 1969, half a million people from all walks of life and every corner of the country converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York. They came to hear the concert of their…
- 7 The Feud Sep 10, 2019 · 55m Anderson Hatfield and Randolph McCoy, the patriarchs of the legendary feud, were entrepreneurs seeking to climb up from hardship after fierce economic competition and rapid technological…