American Experience

PBS - American Experience: The Great War (2017) Movies

Posted by notbanned at April 13, 2017

This is the story of World War I through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators, and American troops, and through the experiences of African-American and Latino soldiers, suffragists, Native American "code talkers," and others whose participation in the war to "make the world safe for democracy" has been largely forgotten.

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PBS American Experience - Race for the Superbomb (1999) Movies

Posted by rwdfox at March 28, 2025

In August 1945, atomic bombs destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, marking the end of World War II. Yet even as the victorious American troops arrived home, the Cold War was beginning.

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PBS American Experience - MacArthur (1999) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 5, 2021

A portrait of a complex, imposing and fascinating American general. No soldier in modern history has been more admired – or more reviled. Douglas MacArthur, liberator of the Philippines, shogun of Occupied Japan, brilliant victor of the Battle of Inchon, was an admired national hero when he was suddenly relieved of his command. Douglas MacArthur was a soldier's soldier: the son of an officer, the star of West Point, the Army's youngest-ever full general.

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PBS American Experience - Annie Oakley (2006) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at May 18, 2013

Described as "the greatest woman rifle shot the world has ever produced," Annie Oakley thrilled audiences of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with her daring shooting feats. Over time she became an American legend. But that legend had little to do with the real Annie Oakley. This probing AMERICAN EXPERIENCE production examines the dramatic life of a uniquely American icon whose complex character manifested many of the paradoxes of the nation.

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PBS American Experience - Chicago City of the Century (2003) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Sept. 22, 2020

City of the Century tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. It's the story of the wealthy and the indigent, the heralded and the forgotten, the shop assistants and the millionaire retail barons who together created Chicago. It describes how through innovation, ingenuity, determination and sheer ruthlessness, the captains of industry created empires in a marshy wasteland.

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PBS American Experience - War of the Worlds (2013) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at April 27, 2020

The night began as any other peaceful Sunday evening, with millions of listeners tuned to their radios. Yet the outward calm hid a nation tense with apprehension: the Great Depression refused to let up, and the threat of war in Europe loomed larger every day. Then, at 8:15 p.m., there was a report on the radio that Martians had landed in New Jersey.

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American Experience: My Lai (2010) Movies

Posted by BlackFlag at Jan. 26, 2012

What drove a company of American soldiers – ordinary young men from around the country – to commit the worst atrocity in American military history? Were they “just following orders” as some later declared? Or, did they break under the pressure of a vicious war in which the line between enemy soldier and civilian had been intentionally blurred? AMERICAN EXPERIENCE focuses on the 1968 My Lai massacre, its subsequent cover-up, and the heroic efforts of the soldiers who broke ranks to try to halt the atrocities, and then bring them to light.

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PBS - American Experience: My Lai (2010) Movies

Posted by denisbul at Oct. 6, 2011

In an exploration of the morality of actions taken in the name of war, American Experience directs its lens to the 1968 My Lai massacre and asks what drove a company of American soldiers to commit the worst atrocity in American military history? Were they "just following orders" or, did they crumble under the pressure of a vicious war in which the line between enemy soldier and civilian had been intentionally blurred?

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PBS - American Experience: The Boy in the Bubble (2006) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 15, 2013

When David Vetter died at the age of 12, he was already world famous: the boy in the plastic bubble. Mythologized as the plucky, handsome child who had defied the odds, his life story is in fact even more dramatic. It is a tragic tale that pits ambitious doctors against a bewildered, frightened young couple; it is a story of unendingly committed caregivers and resourceful scientists on the cutting edge of medical research. This American Experience raises some of the most difficult ethical questions of our age.

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PBS - American Experience: Annie Oakley (2006) Movies

Posted by notbanned at May 26, 2019

Described as "the greatest woman rifle shot the world has ever produced," Annie Oakley thrilled audiences of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with her daring shooting feats. Over time she became an American legend. But that legend had little to do with the real Annie Oakley. This probing AMERICAN EXPERIENCE production examines the dramatic life of a uniquely American icon whose complex character manifested many of the paradoxes of the nation.

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