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Browse the entire American Experience series featuring over 200 films. Watch full films online, download teacher’s guides, go behind the scenes, and learn more about your favorite films.
The story of a Russian immigrant and anarchist who is said to have inspired the assassination of President William McKinley. "The most dangerous woman in America" was exiled in 1919.
A great playwright's turbulent story: from childhood through the years of his Nobel Prize-winning career (including "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night") to his lonely, painful death.
In 1900 Major Walter Reed proved that mosquitoes spread yellow fever. The discovery halted an outbreak during the construction of the Panama Canal, and led to the disease's eventual eradication.
America's most celebrated silent film actress, Mary Pickford was also a businesswoman who played a pivotal role in shaping the first new media of the twentieth century and building Hollywood into the center of the motion picture industry.
In 1897, Arctic explorer Robert Peary caused a sensation when he returned from Greenland with five Eskimos. Within months, four of the Eskimos had died, leaving a seven-year-old boy named Minik alone in a foreign land.
When Harry Thaw murdered Stanford White over showgirl Evelyn Nesbit, the sensational story had everything: money, power, class, love, rage, lust, and revenge against the backdrop of New York City.
From Reconstruction to the 1960s, this film offers a portrait of New Orleans that reflects the best and the worst in America: Mardi Gras, jazz music, and struggles with segregation.
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