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  • Clearing the Air: The War on Smog

    Aired August 26, 2025 | 52 min

    The story of L.A.’s devastating smog problem and the creation of the EPA and the Clean Air Act.

  • Riveted: The History of Jeans

    Aired January 10, 2023 | 53 min

    Discover the fascinating story of this iconic American garment. From their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop, jeans are the fabric on which the history of American ideology and politics is writ large.

  • 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.

  • Bonnie & Clyde

    Aired May 9, 2017 | 52 min

    The true story behind the most romanticized, infamous outlaw couple in U.S. history, and their gang.

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    Aired February 11, 2014 | 52 min

    Long before Paul Newman and Robert Redford immortalized them on screen, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid captivated Americans from coast to coast.

  • Grand Coulee Dam

    Aired April 18, 2017 | 82 min

    At once the story of an astonishing engineering achievement, and a cautionary tale about arrogance, our relationship to the natural world, and the price of progress.

  • Custer's Last Stand

    Aired January 17, 2015 | 120 min

    The Last Stand, the final act of General George Custer's larger-than-life career, played out on a grand stage with a spellbound public engrossed in the drama. Part of the Wild West collection.

  • Billy the Kid

    Aired January 10, 2012 | 113 min

    The boy behind the myth, who in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny orphan to the most feared man in the West and an enduring icon. Part of The Wild West collection.

  • Dinosaur Wars

    Aired January 17, 2011 | 53 min

    In the late 19th century, paleontologists Edward Cope and O.C. Marsh uncovered the remains of hundreds of prehistoric animals in the American West, including dozens of previously undiscovered dinosaur species. But the rivalry that developed between them would spiral out of control, permanently damaging their careers and threatening the future of American paleontology.

     

  • Dolley Madison

    Aired March 1, 2010

    She defined the role of the President's wife, became America's first First Lady, and in the process changed the face of the American presidency.

  • Wyatt Earp

    Aired January 25, 2010 | 53 min

    A central figure in the narrative of how the west was won, Wyatt Earp and his story became an American legend. Part of the Wild West collection.

  • We Shall Remain

    Aired May 11, 2009 | 6 hrs 18 min

    From the award-winning PBS series American Experience comes We Shall Remain, a provocative multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history.