Robert Ripley traveled to Papua New Guinea in 1934.
Robert Ripley gets stuck on a snowy mountain road in 1932.
Robert Ripley visited India in 1936.
One of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history, Seabiscuit was the long shot that captured America's heart during the Depression.
Word of these caves and this graffiti had been passed down from generation to generation. Richard Rubin went in search of them.
Actors, antique radios, and the greatest prank of all times. Behind the scenes with the producers of War of the Worlds.
After the infamous 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, thousands of listeners wrote letters. American Experience film producers used the letters as inspiration for dramatized on-camera interviews. Watch the outtakes.
Watch the opening scene of War of the Worlds.
Martians! In New Jersey! It was the most famous invasion that never happened.
Watch the opening scene of Part 1 of Walt Disney.
Watch the opening scene of Summer of Love.
By the mid-1960s in the Haight-Ashbury district, visions of a utopian society took shape, enhanced by a new drug — LSD.
