6.3
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Self is a real person portrayed by Walter Cronkite in the TV series American Experience (based on a true story).
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Race to the Moon (season 18), they were 88 years old.
They appear in 10 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.

Self

by Walter Cronkite

character

Episodes10

  • 7.5
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    Race to the Moon
    episode S18.E2 october 2005
    The story of the Apollo 8 mission to the moon.
  • 7.2
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    Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1
    episode S18.E3 november 2005
  • 7.1
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    The Nuremberg Trials
    episode S18.E6 january 2006
    The story of the Nuremberg Trials and Robert Jackson, the chief prosecutor.
  • 8.2
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    My Lai
    episode S22.E6 april 2010
    American Experience investigates the My Lai massacre an atrocity during the Vietnam War that killed more than 300 unarmed civilians.
  • 7.7
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    Roads to Memphis
    episode S22.E7 may 2010
    This 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.
  • 8.2
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    JFK: Part 1
    episode S26.E2 november 2013
    JFK's campaign for president is the first to be waged on television, a distinct advantage for the telegenic candidate. Despite his lack of legislative achievements and his Catholicism -- which many Americans see as a negative -- Kennedy wins the election on the promise that he will stand up to the Soviets and protect American preeminence in the world.
  • 8.1
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    1964
    episode S26.E7 january 2014
    The pivotal year that essentially ushered in the true 1960s is explored.
  • 7.9
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    Taken Hostage: Part Two
    episode S34.E6 november 2022
    Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, through stories of those whose ordeal riveted the world.
  • 7.7
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    The Movement and the 'Madman'
    episode S35.E4 march 2023
    Two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 cause President Richard Nixon to cancel his "madman" plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam.
  • 7.5
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    The Busing Battleground
    episode S35.E7 september 2023
    Court-mandated social integration unleashes racial unrest throughout Boston in the 1970s as Black and White students are bussed together.