American Experience

PBS - American Experience: The Gilded Age (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Feb. 8, 2018

The Gilded Age presents a compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.

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PBS - American Experience: The Bombing of Wall Street (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Feb. 14, 2018

On September 16, 1920, as the bells of Trinity Church tolled and hundreds of Wall Street as workers headed out for their noontime break, an explosion struck outside the headquarters of J.P. Morgan and Company - the world's most powerful banking institution. The blast turned the nation's financial center into a war zone and left 38 dead and hundreds more seriously injured. As financial institutions around the country went on high alert, many wondered if this was the strike against American capitalism that radical agitators had so long discussed.

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PBS American Experience - Fidel Castro (2004) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at March 4, 2023

"On January 3, 1959, a column of victorious young rebels advanced along Cuba's main highway towards Havana. At the head of the column rode 33-year-old Fidel Castro Ruz. As he went by, a Cuban peasant turned to an American journalist, and said: "There he goes, the hope of a people." Over the next few decades, by the force of his personality and the might of his Soviet benefactor, Castro turned himself and Cuba into significant players on the world stage.

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PBS - American Experience: The American Vice President (2024) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 5, 2024

The American Vice President explores the little-known story of the second-highest office in the land, tracing its evolution from a constitutional afterthought to a position of political consequence. Focusing on the fraught period between 1963 and 1974, when a grief-stricken and then scandal-plagued America was forced to clarify the role of the vice president, the film examines the passage and first uses of the 25th Amendment and offers a fresh and surprising perspective on succession in the executive branch.

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PBS American Experience - McCarthy (2020) Movies

Posted by rwdfox at March 28, 2025

Chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator whose anti-communist crusade against alleged infiltration of state institutions and film industry would test the limits of American decency and democracy in the 1950s.

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PBS American Experience - The Civilian Conservation Corps (2009) Movies

Posted by notbanned at April 10, 2025

American Experience celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Founded by Roosevelt during the Great Depression, the CCC put over 3 million men to work improving the countries infrastructure and national parks.

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PBS - American Experience: Fidel Castro (2005) Movies

Posted by Berrevoets at April 28, 2010

On January 3, 1959, a column of victorious young rebels advanced along Cuba’s main highway towards Havana. At the head of the column rode 33-year-old Fidel Castro Ruz. As he went by, a Cuban peasant turned to an American journalist, and said: “There he goes, the hope of a people.”

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PBS - American Experience: The Amish (2012) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at April 10, 2012

On October 2, 2006, a 32-year-old milk truck driver named Charles Roberts entered a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish community of Nickel Mines in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and shot 10 young girls, killing five, before committing suicide as police officers stormed the school.

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PBS American Experience - Tupperware! (2004) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at Nov. 12, 2013

In the 1950s, American women discovered they could earn thousands — even millions — of dollars from bowls that burped. "Tupperware ladies" fanned out across the nation's living rooms, selling efficiency and convenience to their friends and neighbors through home parties. Bowl by bowl, they built an empire that now spans the globe. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents Tupperware!, a documentary by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt.

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America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience (2015) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Feb. 24, 2016

America’s Untold Journey – 450 Years of the African-American Experience, is an hour-long documentary which reveals untold facts about the importance of African-American involvement in the nation’s creation.

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