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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 founding father who laid the groundwork for the nation's modern economy -- including the banking system and Wall Street. He was also a primary author of the Federalist Papers.
America's first superstar, Oakley was the main attraction of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. She thrilled audiences with her sharpshooting, and fueled nostalgia for the American frontier West.
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's legendary exploits helped create the myth of the American West that still endures today.
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.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt restored hope after the Great Depression and led the nation during World War II. Part of the award-winning The Presidents collection.
Cuba's Communist leader defied the odds, surviving his Soviet benefactors, the wrath of U.S. presidents, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and several assassination attempts.
Meet the Confederate guerrilla who helped invent his own myth after the Civil War as a Western Robin Hood. In reality, Jesse James was a brutal thief and murderer.
The legendary trapper, scout and soldier helped map the Oregon Trail. The ultimate frontiersman, Carson inspired popular novels before being associated with the "Long Walk" of the Navajo people.
Malcolm X, a man who both terrified and inspired, expressed the anger and struggle of black people for freedom in the 1960s. Who killed Malcolm X and why remains a mystery.
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.
The remarkable and tragic life of the third Kennedy son, Robert F. Kennedy, who was the probable Democratic presidential candidate of 1968 when he was assassinated.
Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change. He would die in a tragic plane crash.
Today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history, poet Walt Whitman, author of Leaves of Grass and chronicler of the damage done by Civil War, was denounced by critics in his own time.
The story of Native peoples’ valiant resistance to expulsion from their lands and the extinction of their culture -- from the Wampanoags of New England, who used their alliance with the English to weaken rival tribes (episode 1, “After the Mayflower”), to the bold new leaders of the 1970s who harnessed the momentum of the civil rights movement to forge a pan-Indian identity (episode 5, “Wounded Knee”). Also, contemporary Native Americans tell their own stories and NativeNow explores important issues of language, sovereignty and enterprise.
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