American Experience

PBS American Experience - The Great Famine (2011) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Aug. 17, 2020

The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Five million Russians died. Half a world away, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by Herbert Hoover, director of the American Relief Administration known as the ARA.

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PBS American Experience - Robert E. Lee (2011) Movies

Posted by notbanned at May 7, 2020

ew figures in U.S. military history are as divisive as General Robert E. Lee (1807-70). Adored by some for his heroic leadership of the Confederacy during the Civil War - to such a degree that countless statues still commemorate him in the American South - and resented or loathed by others for the southern cause that he promulgated, Lee continues to court endless fascination. This episode of PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE documentary series explores Lee's life, accomplishments and reputation, with a particularly strong emphasis on his string of military victories and the idolization surrounding Lee in the 140 years that followed his death.

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PBS American Experience - Victory in the Pacific (2005) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 23, 2019

Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, American Experience presents Victory in the Pacific. The two-hour program examines the final year of World War II in the Pacific, including the rationale for using the atomic bomb, and features the first-hand recollections of both American and Japanese civilians and soldiers – even a kamikaze pilot who survived his failed mission. Victory in the Pacific traces that fateful year, from the American capture of the Mariana Islands in the Central Pacific in July 1944 to the surrender broadcast of Emperor Hirohito in August 1945.

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PBS American Experience - God in America (2010) Movies

Posted by rwdfox at April 27, 2025

For the first time on television, God in America explores the tumultuous 400-year history of the intersection of religion and public life in America, from the first European settlements to the 2008 presidential election.

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PBS American Experience - My Lai (2010) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 24, 2019

In this edition of the critically acclaimed "American Experience" series, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Barak Goodman reopens the investigation into the infamous My Lai massacre, a Vietnam War-era atrocity that killed more than 300 unarmed civilians. Complemented by 400 hours of newly discovered audio recordings that shed light on what happened on the ground, Goodman's Emmy-nominated film includes first-person accounts from the participants and other eyewitnesses.

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American Experience: We Shall Remain (2009) Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Feb. 9, 2019

We Shall Remain is a groundbreaking mini-series and provocative multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history. It begins in the 1600s with the Wampanoags, who used their alliance with the English to strengthen their position in Southern New England. And it ends with the bold new leaders of the 1970s, who harnessed the momentum of the Civil Rights Movement to forge a pan-Indian identity.

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American Experience: We Shall Remain (2009) Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Feb. 3, 2019

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PBS - American Experience: American Oz (2021) Movies

Posted by notbanned at April 22, 2021

Explore the life of L. Frank Baum, the man behind one of the most beloved and enduring American classics. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, has been reinterpreted through the generations in films, books and musicals.

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PBS - American Experience: Death and the Civil War (2012) Movies

Posted by ParRus at Feb. 11, 2013

PBS - American Experience: Death and the Civil War (2012)

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Genre: Documentary

From acclaimed filmmaker Ric Burns, Death and the Civil War explores an essential but largely overlooked aspect of the most pivotal event in American history. With the coming of the Civil War, and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered the experience of the American people as it never had before - permanently altering the character of the republic, and the psyche of the American people.

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PBS - American Experience: War Letters (2001) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 13, 2014

In every American war from the Revolutionary War to the Persian Gulf War, American military men and women have captured the horror, pathos and intensity of warfare by writing letters home. Tens of thousands of these letters have been handed down from generation to generation. Using the most compelling and enlightening of these missives, War Letters tells the story of American wars from the viewpoint of the men and women in the front lines.

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