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American Experience Season 27 Episodes
Season 27 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2014 - 2015
Episode 1
Cold War Roadshow
Tue, Nov 18, 201453 mins
The 1959 tour of the U.S. by the Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
Episode 2
Ripley: Believe It or Not
Tue, Jan 6, 2015
Bucktoothed but athletic, shy, stuttering and stammering newspaper sports cartoonist Leroy Robert Ripley catapulted into national celebrity when his interests in odd facts and Asian cultures caught widespread public interest under his column heading of Believe It or Not, making him the most unsuccessfully imitated and traveled man of his time.
Episode 3
Klansville U.S.A.
Tue, Jan 13, 201553 mins
Investigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.
Episode 4
Edison
Tue, Jan 27, 2015113 mins
Amazing biography and introspective on the boy, the man, the husband, the father, the entrepreneur and the businessman as well as the inventor and his genius.
Episode 5
The Big Burn
Tue, Feb 3, 201553 mins
From PBS - Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with a catastrophe that would define the agency and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond. As America tries to manage its fire-prone landscapes in the 21st century, The Big Burn provides a cautionary tale of heroism and sacrifice, arrogance and greed, hubris and, ultimately, humility, in the face of nature's frightening power.
Episode 6
The Forgotten Plague
Tue, Feb 10, 201553 mins
Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits, social habits, economic development and public policy, TB and its impact are poorly understood.
Episode 7
Last Days in Vietnam
Tue, Apr 28, 2015
In April of 1975, the North Vietnamese Army was closing in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance was crumbling. On the ground, American and South Vietnamese took matters into their own hands to evacuate as many people as possible.
Episode 8
Blackout
Tue, Jul 14, 201552 mins
A citywide power outage merged with a heat wave, a serial killer and understaffed police precincts to create a harrowing blackout in 1977 New York.
