Most Viewed From American Experience Films

In May of 1942, across the rugged sub-Arctic wilderness of Alaska and Canada, thousands of American soldiers began one of the biggest and most...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joe Morton

The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the spectacular rise of disco music. Originating in underground Black and gay clubs,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Felipe Rose

Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act tells the emotional and dramatic story of the decades-long push for equality and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Dinklage

On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to a microphone in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Inscribed on the walls of the monument...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marian Anderson

In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Katherine Cummings

The American Vice President explores the little-known story of the second-highest office in the land, tracing its evolution from a constitutional...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rachel Maddow

Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita spent ten months studying The Super Outbreak of 1974, which was the most intense tornado outbreak on...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joe Morton

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. This...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bob Ricks

The Busing Battleground pulls back the curtain on the volatile effort to end school segregation, detailing the decades-long struggle for educational...

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Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal tells the dramatic and inspiring story of the ordinary women who fought against overwhelming odds for the...

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Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat...

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This is the story of more than four hundred Americans who participated in a bold and dangerous experiment designed to awaken the conscience of a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Raymond Arsenault

The story of how the life-saving cervical cancer test became an ordinary part of women’s lives is as unusual and remarkable as the coalition of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andia Winslow

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joe Morton

In The Harvest, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas A. Blackmon looks back at how school integration transformed his hometown of Leland,...

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Unfolding like a political thriller, Taken Hostage tells the story of the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats, Marines and civilians were...

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In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Blair Brown

In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to investigate why Black neighborhoods all over the country were...

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In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally.” Images of George...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Beverly Gage

Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, this four-hour mini-series follows the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Murphy