American Experience

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  • TV-PG
  • 1988
  • 35 Seasons
  • 8.6  (2,054)

American Experience is a PBS documentary that has a great appeal as it looks at lives of Americans, and makes for interesting documentary viewing around their lives. This series focuses on different pieces of history and the people involved in the history of the United States. The lives of these people and their stories, is what has made this a unique TV series. American Experience is a very good look at some of the most interesting Americans, and their contribution, that have every lived. Originally many of them came as immigrants and made a fantastic life with blood seat and tears. The pains and hardships build great drama in this series about the American Experience. The American Experience TV series, is a fascinatingly entertaining series that is intellectually stimulating at the same time. As the program examines the people of America, and their events, and the technologies they had a hand in bringing to us, it makes for interesting drama that hold you to the channel. Many episodes examine how different natural resources have shaped the country, and how some have hurt the country. The lives of Americans are so interesting because so many of us come from so many different places, and each has contributed in a different way. Each show has a different narrator that seems to fit the venue they are exploring. The tone and atmosphere give it a real sense of drama and keeps you wanting more. Inside each life event there is rich stories of humanity, that adds to the series in a very heart felt way. The series is narrated by well known personalities from famous Americans themselves, and adds to the regal effect that makes it so delightful. American Experience uses expert historians, and history authors, to create the truest and most visual account, of what these Americans did and went through. The series has spectacular period images, and is very realistic and riveting. They use great filming to blend with rich music to make the stories seem alive today. These dramatic re-enactments have a suspense to them that creates a mood in the audience that leaves them wondering what is next. Contemporary America is brought to life, and the inside stories are carefully examined as the story of America, and Americans, is unfolded in the TV series. It makes us all do a little soul searching for what others have went though, and helps us to be understanding to a greater degree. One of the best series on TV today and rich entertainment.

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The Sun Queen
5. The Sun Queen
April 4, 2023
For nearly 50 years, biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to harnessing the sun's power. She designed and built the first successfully solar-powered house in 1949 but was perplexed by the knotty scientific challenge of developing a reliable and economical way to store captured solar energy.
The Movement and the
4. The Movement and the "Madman"
March 28, 2023
The Movement and the "Madman" shows how two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 — the largest the country had ever seen — pressured President Nixon to cancel what he called his "madman" plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam, including a threat to use nuclear weapons. At the time, protestors had no idea how influential they could be and how many lives they may have saved. Told through remarkable archival footage and firsthand accounts from movement leaders, Nixon administration officials, historians, and others, the film explores how the leaders of the antiwar movement mobilized disparate groups from coast to coast to create two massive protests that changed history.
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
3. Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
February 20, 2023
For generations, Monopoly has been America's favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and — for better or worse — the impulses that make our free-market society tick. But behind the myth of the game's creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession, and corporate double-dealing. Contrary to the folksy legend spread by Parker Brothers, Monopoly's secret history is a surprising saga that features a radical feminist, a community of Quakers in Atlantic City, America's greatest game company, and an unemployed Depression-era engineer. And the real story behind the creation of the game might never have come to light if it weren't for the determination of an economics professor and impassioned anti-monopolist.
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
2. Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
January 17, 2023
Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime, became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore. This episode is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender, and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
The Lie Detector
1. The Lie Detector
January 3, 2023
In the first decades of the 20th century, when scientific innovations were transforming life, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they could tell whether someone was lying by using a machine. Popularly known as the "lie detector," the device transformed police work, seized headlines, and was extolled in movies, TV, and comics as an infallible crime-fighting tool. Husbands and wives tested each other's fidelity. Corporations routinely tested employees' honesty, and government workers were tested for loyalty and "morals." But the promise of the polygraph turned dark, and the lie detector too often became an apparatus of fear and intimidation. Written and directed by Rob Rapley and executive produced by Cameo George, The Lie Detectoris a tale of good intentions, twisted morals, and unintended consequences.
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American Experience is a PBS documentary that has a great appeal as it looks at lives of Americans, and makes for interesting documentary viewing around their lives. This series focuses on different pieces of history and the people involved in the history of the United States. The lives of these people and their stories, is what has made this a unique TV series. American Experience is a very good look at some of the most interesting Americans, and their contribution, that have every lived. Originally many of them came as immigrants and made a fantastic life with blood seat and tears.

The pains and hardships build great drama in this series about the American Experience. The American Experience TV series, is a fascinatingly entertaining series that is intellectually stimulating at the same time. As the program examines the people of America, and their events, and the technologies they had a hand in bringing to us, it makes for interesting drama that hold you to the channel. Many episodes examine how different natural resources have shaped the country, and how some have hurt the country.

The lives of Americans are so interesting because so many of us come from so many different places, and each has contributed in a different way. Each show has a different narrator that seems to fit the venue they are exploring. The tone and atmosphere give it a real sense of drama and keeps you wanting more. Inside each life event there is rich stories of humanity, that adds to the series in a very heart felt way. The series is narrated by well known personalities from famous Americans themselves, and adds to the regal effect that makes it so delightful.

American Experience uses expert historians, and history authors, to create the truest and most visual account, of what these Americans did and went through. The series has spectacular period images, and is very realistic and riveting. They use great filming to blend with rich music to make the stories seem alive today. These dramatic re-enactments have a suspense to them that creates a mood in the audience that leaves them wondering what is next. Contemporary America is brought to life, and the inside stories are carefully examined as the story of America, and Americans, is unfolded in the TV series.

It makes us all do a little soul searching for what others have went though, and helps us to be understanding to a greater degree. One of the best series on TV today and rich entertainment.

American Experience is a series that is currently running and has 35 seasons (376 episodes). The series first aired on October 4, 1988.

Where to Watch American Experience

American Experience is available for streaming on the PBS website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch American Experience on demand at Google Play, Apple TV and PBS.

  • Premiere Date
    October 4, 1988
  • IMDB Rating
    8.6  (2,054)
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