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The Feud

Aired September 10, 2019 | 53 min

The real story behind the Hatfields and the McCoys, the most famous family conflict in American history.

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In August, 1969, half a million people from all walks of life and every corner of the country converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York. They came to hear the concert of their lives, but most experienced something far more profound: a moment that would change them and the country forever, and define a cultural revolution.

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Chasing the Moon

Aired July 10, 2019 | 5 hrs 36 min

Nearly 50 years ago, we took one small step. In 2019, join American Experience and PBS to relive the journey that defined a generation.

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Sealab

Aired February 12, 2019 | 53 min

In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was an audacious feat of engineering — a pressurized underwater habitat, designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor.Sealab tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.

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The Swamp

Aired January 15, 2019 | 114 min

The Swamp, explores the repeated efforts to reclaim, control and transform what was seen as a vast wasteland into an agricultural and urban paradise, and, ultimately, the drive to preserve America’s greatest wetland.

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The Eugenics Crusade

Aired October 16, 2018 | 114 min

The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely –– and largely unknown –– campaign to breed a “better” American race, tracing the rise of the movement that turned the fledgling science of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control.

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The Circus

Aired October 9, 2018 | 3 hrs 48 min

The Circus explores the colorful history of this popular, influential and distinctly American form of entertainment, from the first one-ring show at the end of the 18th century to 1956, when the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey big top was pulled down for the last time.

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The Chinese Exclusion Act

Aired May 29, 2018 | 120 min

The 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.

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The Bombing of Wall Street

Aired February 13, 2018 | 60 min

The story behind a mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in the nation’s financial center that left 38 dead and remains unsolved today.

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The Gilded Age

Aired February 6, 2018 | 120 min

Meet the titans and barons of the glittering late 19th century, whose materialistic extravagance contrasted harshly with the poverty of the struggling workers who challenged them. The vast disparities between them sparked debates still raging today.

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The Secret of Tuxedo Park

Aired January 16, 2018 | 60 min

Meet Wall Street tycoon Alfred Lee Loomis, who led a double life as a scientist and whose secret lab in upstate New York developed radar technology that altered the course of World War II.

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Into the Amazon

Aired January 9, 2018 | 120 min

Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of President Theodore Roosevelt’s journey with legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest.

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