Self is a real person portrayed by George Wallace in the TV series American Experience (based on a true story).
They appear in 4 episodes out of a total of 387 aired so far
Self is also portrayed by Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Fontaine, Judy Garland, Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles, Charles Chaplin, Martin Scorsese and Nancy Allen.
Episodes4
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
episode S1.E7 november 1988Filmmaker Robert Drew updates his 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) which followed the confrontation between President Kennedy and Alabama governor George Wallace.Roads to Memphis
episode S22.E7 may 2010This film tells the story of an assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April 1968.Klansville U.S.A.
episode S27.E3 january 2015Investigate 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.The Busing Battleground
episode S35.E7 september 2023Court-mandated social integration unleashes racial unrest throughout Boston in the 1970s as Black and White students are bussed together.
- Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
- Roads to Memphis
- Klansville U.S.A.
- The Busing Battleground