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American Experience : Season 37
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Air date: 01 Oct '24 - 8 episodesTV's most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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List of Episodes (8)
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American Experience (1988)
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1. Forgotten Hero: Walter White and The NAACP
24 Feb '25While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Some of the NAACP leaders are familiar, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall, but Walter White, head of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, has been all but forgotten. With his blond hair and blue eyes, Walter White looked white; he described
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American Experience (1988)
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2. Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act
24 Mar '25The emotional and dramatic story of the decades-long push for equality and accessibility that culminated in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. A story of courage and perseverance, the film highlights the determined people who literally put their bodies on the line to achieve their goal and change the lives of all Americans.
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American Experience (1988)
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3. Mr. Polaroid
31 Mar '25Before the iPhone, the Polaroid camera let people instantly chronicle their lives. Along with instant photo mania, its company culture became the model for Silicon Valley. Mr. Polaroid is the story of Edwin Land, the man behind the camera.
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American Experience (1988)
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4. Clearing the Air: The War on Smog
26 Aug '25A chronicle of how Los Angeles' devastating smog problem in the 1940s and 50s led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Clean Air Act.
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American Experience (1988)
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5. Hard Hat Riot
30 Sep '25Hard Hat Riot tells the story of a struggling metropolis, a flailing president, a divided people, and a bloody juncture when the nation violently diverged ― culminating in a new political and cultural landscape that radically redefined American politics and foreshadowed the future.
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American Experience (1988)
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6. Kissinger (1): The Necessity of Power
27 Oct '25The story of Henry Kissinger, the enigmatic powerbroker who served in the topmost echelons of U.S. diplomacy. Celebrated or reviled, his contradictions reflect those central to late 20th century U.S. foreign policy. With interviews from proteges and colleagues, Kissinger endeavors to understand his relentless drive for power, and how his policies shaped today’s world.
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American Experience (1988)
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7. Kissinger (2): The Opportunist
28 Oct '25Discover how Henry Kissinger's anti-Communist zeal would shape U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam, China, Chile, and the Soviet Union in the second half of the 20th century, through the voices of historians and colleagues.
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American Experience (1988)
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8. Bombshell
06 Jan '26The efforts of a group of intrepid reporters to let the world know the truth about the bombings of Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
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