American Experience Series

Lectures curated around select American Experience programs.

Television's most-watched history series, American Experience has been hailed as "peerless" (Wall Street Journal), "the most consistently enriching program on television" (Chicago Tribune), and "a beacon of intelligence and purpose" (Houston Chronicle). On air and online, the series brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America's past and present. Acclaimed by viewers and critics alike, American Experience documentaries have been honored with every major broadcast award, including twenty-four Emmy Awards, four duPont-Columbia Awards, and fourteen George Foster Peabody Awards, one most recently for Two Days in October.

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American Experience: Fidel Castro Series
American Experience: Fidel Castro Series
3 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: Fidel Castro, which examines this controversial, charismatic dictator who has confounded American presidents from Eisenhower to Bush.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Stonewall Uprising Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Stonewall Uprising Series
19 Lectures
Lectures curated around AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Stonewall Uprising that explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide gay rights movement.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Eyes on the Prize Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Eyes on the Prize Series
7 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: Eyes on the Prize, an award-winning television series on all of the major events of the Civil Rights Movement from 1954-1985.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Civilian Conservation Corps Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Civilian Conservation Corps Series
12 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: Civilan Conservation Corps, a New Deal work program that combined conservation, renewal, awareness and appreciation of the nation's natural resources.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Kit Carson Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Kit Carson Series
1 Lecture
Lectures curated around American Experience: Kit Carson, which profiles the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier of the western frontier.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: John and Abigail Adams Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: John and Abigail Adams Series
22 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: John and Abigail Adams, which examines this original power couple.
American Experience: RFK Series
American Experience: RFK Series
10 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: RFK that explores Robert Kennedy's enormous capacity for growth as a person and as a leader, as defined by the death of his brother.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Influenza 1918 Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Influenza 1918 Series
8 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: Influenza, the story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Vietnam Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Vietnam Series
13 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: Vietnam and the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: We Shall Remain Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: We Shall Remain Series
1 Lecture
Lectures curated around American Experience: We Shall Remain that spans three hundred years to tell the story of US history from the Native American perspective.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Lobotomist Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Lobotomist Series
18 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: The Lobotomist, which examines Walter Freeman's controversial treatment for mental illness in the early decades of the 20th century.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Victory in the Pacific Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Victory in the Pacific Series
4 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: Victory in the Pacific, which examines the final year of World War II in the Pacific.
The Presidents Series
The Presidents Series
108 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: The Presidents, an in-depth look at some of the most powerful men in the world.
Earth Day Series
Earth Day Series
51 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: Earth Days Series that celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day and gives testament to what the environmental movement has meant in America.”
Holocaust Remembrance Series
Holocaust Remembrance Series
24 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: America and the Holocaust Series, which examines the complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust.
American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Series
American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Series
11 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, which recounts the great drama surrounding America's first assassinated president and celebrates the bicentennial of his birth in 1809.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Living Weapon Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Living Weapon Series
5 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: The Living Weapon that examines the international race to develop biological weapons in the 1940s and 1950s
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Fall of Saigon Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Fall of Saigon Series
6 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: The Fall of Saigon that explores the final chapter of the Vietnam War.
American Experience: Alexander Hamilton Series
American Experience: Alexander Hamilton Series
19 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: Alexander Hamilton that traces the life and contributions of this colorful statesman.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Crash of 1929 Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Crash of 1929 Series
15 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: The Crash of 1929 that explores a fateful year through the descendants of several titans of finance on the 80th anniversary of the Crash of '29.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Buffalo Bill Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Buffalo Bill Series
1 Lecture
Lectures curated around American Experience: Buffalo Bill, which examines William Cody's legendary exploits that helped create the myth of the American West.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: New Orleans Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: New Orleans Series
3 Lectures
Lectures curated around American Experience: New Orleans, which explores New Orleans's unique and distinctive culture and illuminates its central place on the American landscape.