Watch full American Experience programs here, in QuickTime and Windows Media or RealVideo formats. The programs are divided into convenient chapters, and have optional captions as well.
Buffalo Bill (February 2008)
Just as the American frontier was disappearing, this master showman presented a world-famous traveling show that brought the "real" Wild West to life.
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Kit Carson (February 2008)
The legendary trapper, scout, and soldier's exploits on the American frontier inspired popular dime novels, but those tales belie the complexities of the real Kit Carson.
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Grand Central (February 2008)
The dramatic story of the construction of New York City's Grand Central Terminal.
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The Lobotomist (January 2008)
Little more than a decade after his rise to fame, Walter Freeman was decried as a monster, and his procedure was labeled one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine.
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Alexander Hamilton (May 2007)
One of the most controversial men of his age, and the one Founding Father who had a vision of what America could become.
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The Mormons (April/May 2007)
The history, richness, complexities, and controversies of the Mormon faith. A special co-production with Frontline.
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Summer of Love (April 2007)
1967. San Francisco. A notorious event at the peak of the Sixties counterculture movement.
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New Orleans (February 2007)
The utterly original city at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi and at the beating heart of the great American experiment.
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The Living Weapon (February 2007)
Scientific, technical, and moral challenges in the race to develop biological weapons.
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Test Tube Babies (October 2006)
A technological revolution in human reproduction.
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Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (January 2004)
The extraordinary stories of ordinary Americans -- Southern and Northern, white and black -- as they struggle to shape new lives for themselves in a world turned upside down.
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