American Experience Executive Producer Mark Samels discusses the film and why we made it — explaining that you cannot understand the world we live in today without understanding the Great War.
Director Barak Goodman discusses the decision to open his film with the iconic image of the Murrah Federal Building just moments after the Oklahoma City bombing.Â
It was Boston — a city of so many firsts — that overcame great engineering challenges and the fears of its citizenry to construct America’s first subway.
An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking writings revolutionized our relationship to the natural world and launched the modern environmental movement.
Bob Peurifoy and Bill Stevens were both engineers at Sandia National Laboratories. Both men were shocked when they realized how vulnerable the nation’s nuclear weapons were to accidents.