American Experience Season 16 Episodes

Episode 1

New York: Center of the World

Mon, Sep 8, 2003180 mins

This final chapter provides a powerful portrait of the events leading up to and following 9/11, reaching back to when the idea of a "world trade center" was first conceived and the towers were constructed. Explore the physical, economic, and symbolic aftermath of the attack and what Americans can learn from the recovery effort.

Episode 2

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Part 1 - Revolution

Mon, Jan 12, 200490 mins

Part one focuses on people and events from 1865-68.

Episode 3

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Part 2 - Retreat

Tue, Jan 13, 200490 mins

Part two follows several blacks and whites in the south between 1867 and 1877.

Episode 4

Citizen King

Mon, Jan 19, 2004

A documentary that draws on input from a broad cross-section of people to examine to last five years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life.

Episode 5

Remember the Alamo

Mon, Feb 2, 2004

Episode 6

Tupperware!

Mon, Feb 9, 200463 mins

Tupperware! tells the remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught sales-woman who built him an empire out of bowls that burped. Brownie was an intuitive marketing genius who trained a small army of Tupperware Ladies to put on Tupperware parties in living rooms across America in the 1950s. She rewarded her sales force with minks and modern appliances at extravagant annual jubilees which the company filmed. her saleswomen earned thousands, even millions, selling Tupperware. And the experience changed their lives.

Episode 7

Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman

Mon, Apr 12, 200455 mins

Russian immigrant Emma Goldman verbally attacked the U.S. government, big business and World War I before becoming expatriated in 1919.

Episode 8

Patriots Day

Mon, Apr 19, 2004

Episode 9

Golden Gate Bridge

Mon, May 3, 2004