Watch American Experience Season 17 Episode 5: Kinsey

This much-honored PBS documentary series explores American history, one topic or person at a time. Its Peabody Award winners include profiles of FDR and Malcolm X, and such diverse topics as Nixon's 1972 trip to China, the controversy surrounding `Citizen Kane' when it was released, and the Battle of the Bulge. In addition, its Scottsboro Boys film won an...

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Season 17, Episode 5 Kinsey

First Aired: February 14, 2005

Profiling Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the Indiana University zoologist whose “revolutionary picture of American sexuality” rocked the country in the late 1940s and early '50s. Filmmakers Barak Goodman and John Maggio (“American Experience: The Fight”) interview Kinsey colleagues and biographers, along with people took part in his studies, to paint a portrait of an “unyielding” proponent of sexual freedom who practiced what he preached. Says sexologist Paul Gebhard, a Kinsey assistant: “He was a rebel.”

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Premiered: October 4, 1988
Rating: TV-PG
Premise: This much-honored PBS documentary series explores American history, one topic or person at a time. Its Peabody Award winners include profiles of FDR and Malcolm X, and such diverse topics as Nixon's 1972 trip to China, the controversy surrounding `Citizen… (more)

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