Special Features
- Bonus Video: Jubilee Video: Fort Fairlane Giveaway
- Teacher's Resources: Teacher's Guide
- Bonus Video: Jubilee Video: Fashion Show
- General Article: "The Future" in the 1950s
- Bonus Video: Jubilee Video: Paint by Numbers
- Photo Gallery: Tupper's Invention Notebooks
Using interviews with Tupperware executives and dealers from the early days and wonderful, little-seen footage of Tupperware Jubilees, this funny, probing program re-examines assumptions about American culture in the 1950s.
My American Experience
Share Your Story
What do you think of the Tupperware story? What's your opinion of the postwar consumer boom, the rise of plastics, and other events of the 1950s? Has Tupperware affected you?
Kinsey
With data compiled from tens of thousands of sex questionnaires, Alfred Kinsey changed America's views about sex with the Kinsey Reports.
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The Massie Affair
in 1931, Grace Hubbard Fortescue received a one-hour sentence for murdering a local Hawaiian accused of raping her daughter.
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That Rhythm, Those Blues
The evolution of rhythm and blues through the careers of singers Ruth Brown and Charles Brown, with contemporary performances by both.
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The Pill
The story behind the development of the oral contraceptive that put women in control of birth control.
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Barnum's Big Top
P.T. Barnum -- huckster, con man, promoter, entertainer and founder of "The Greatest Show on Earth".
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New Orleans
From Reconstruction to the 1960s, this film offers a portrait of New Orleans that reflects the best and the worst in America.
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Jesse Owens
His stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Premiering May 1.
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The Amish
Their intense faith and strict adherence to 300-year-old traditions have by turn captivated and repelled, awed and irritated, inspired and confused America.
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