Episode guide
American Experience: Season 6
8 episodes · first aired Oct 26, 1993
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- 1 Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage Oct 27, 1993 · 55m The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart was one of America's first celebrities. After only a few years as a pilot she became the best-known female flier in America…
- 2 The Hunt for Pancho Villa Nov 8, 1993 · 55m Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, was the culmination of years of bloody incidents along the border. For Americans, it was the last straw. In 1916, General John Pershing and his…
- 3 Eisenhower Nov 10, 1993 · 2h 30m Dwight D. Eisenhower was a decorated general, a skillful politician, a tough Cold War adversary and one of America's least understood presidents. Part of the award-winning Presidents…
- 4 The Hurricane of '38 Nov 17, 1993 · 55m The Hurricane of '38 chronicles the lives of fishermen, residents and vacationers on the day before the storm, following their stories through one of the greatest natural disasters ever to…
- 5 Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian Jan 19, 1994 · 55m The last surviving member of a California Indian tribe became a sensation in 1911, but the contact brought him terrible physical and psychological consequences.
- 6 Malcolm X: Make It Plain Jan 26, 1994 · 55m If any man expressed the anger, struggle and insistence of black people for freedom in the sixties, it was Malcolm X. In Omaha, he was Malcolm Little; later he became "Detroit Red" a small…
- 7 America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference Apr 6, 1994 · 1h 25m Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust, from Kristallnacht in 1938 through the liberation of the death camps in 1945. For a short time, the U.S…
- 8 D-Day Remembered May 25, 1994 · 55m It was truly a "battle of the world," a pivotal turning point in history, and the most dramatic single event in WWII. A military operation fraught with incalculable risk; the secret…