American Experience Season 6 Episodes

Episode 1

Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage

Wed, Oct 27, 199355 mins

Profiling the pioneering aviator whose plane disappeared during her 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the Earth.

Episode 2

The Hunt for Pancho Villa

Wed, Nov 3, 199360 mins

Episode 3

Ike (Part I)

Wed, Nov 10, 1993

Episode 4

Ike: Part II

Wed, Nov 10, 1993

Episode 5

The Hurricane of '38

Wed, Nov 17, 1993

Survivors recall the hurricane that devastated Rhode Island and New York's Long Island.

Episode 6

Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian

Wed, Jan 19, 1994

The last member of a diminished Native American tribe from California makes himself known at the beginning of the 20th century.

Episode 7

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

Wed, Jan 26, 1994150 mins

Episode 8

America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference

Wed, Apr 6, 199485 mins

As the campaign to force Jews out of Germany ramps up, the American government blocks efforts to help rescue many of these displaced persons, and Americans' antisemitism only seems to get worse.

Episode 9

D-Day Remembered

Wed, May 25, 199454 mins

An award-winning documentary of the invasion of Normandy in World War II, using rare archival films and pictures from British, American, and German archives. The narrator provides the overall continuity, but the voices of over 50 participants who were involved in the staging of the invasion in Britain or were on the beaches of France bring the images to life.