American Experience

8.6
/10
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  • documentary
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A series showcasing documentaries on American history.
  • 1hs
  • Seasons: 36
  • Episodes: 387
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American Experience

season 15

serie United States 1988

Episode rating

7.5
E1
7.2
E2
8.0
E3
7.9
E4
7.7
E5
7.9
E6
7.1
E7
7.9
E8
7.2
E9
6.9
E10
7.9
E11
7.1
E12
5.8
E13

Cast of season 15

In order of relevance in the season

Episodes of season 1513

  • 7.5
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    Jimmy Carter (Part I)

    episode S15.E1 november 2002
    Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with Washington politics. But inexperience, inflation, recession, and the Iran hostage crisis, derailed his presidency dramatically. His crowning achievement, the Camp David Accords, created a framework for Middle East peace, inspiring his life since. The film traces his ascent from Plains, Georgia, to the Oval Office and explores the role of religion in his career. This is the first of two parts.
  • 7.2
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    Jimmy Carter: Part 2

    episode S15.E2 november 2002
    Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with Washington politics. But inexperience, inflation, recession, and the Iran hostage crisis, derailed his presidency dramatically. His crowning achievement, the Camp David Accords, created a framework for Middle East peace, inspiring his life since. The film traces his ascent from Plains, Georgia, to the Oval Office and explores the role of religion in his career. This is the second of two parts.
  • 8
    /10

    Chicago: City of the Century: Part 1

    episode S15.E3 january 2003
    Tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world.
  • 7.9
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    Chicago: City of the Century: Part 2

    episode S15.E4 january 2003
  • 7.7
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    Chicago: City of the Century: Part 3

    episode S15.E5 january 2003
  • 7.9
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    The Murder of Emmett Till

    episode S15.E6 january 2003
    A documentary examining the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old boy from Chicago while visiting relatives in Mississippi, and the broad impact of his death, his funeral, and the subsequent trial and acquittal of his white killers.
  • 7.1
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    Transcontinental Railroad

    episode S15.E7 january 2003
  • 7.9
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    Partners of the Heart

    episode S15.E8 february 2003
    During World War II and the era of staunch racial segregation, a Black carpenter's son named Vivien Thomas, who had a talent for surgery, along with a white surgeon named Dr. Alfred Blalock, who defied the medical establishment created a partnership that changed the course of cardiac surgery. With only a high school diploma, Thomas became a leading cardiac pioneer and educator of two generations of the United States' premiere heart surgeons. This moving documentary tells the story of Thomas and his relationship with Blalock, one that ushered in advances in surgery that are still in existence today.
  • 7.2
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    The Pill

    episode S15.E9 february 2003
    A documentary recounting the development of the birth control pill.
  • 6.9
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    Daughter from Danang

    episode S15.E10 april 2003
    A woman taken to America during Operation Babylift returns to Vietnam in order to meet her birth mother.
  • 7.9
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    Seabiscuit

    episode S15.E11 april 2003
    He was boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn't completely straighten a short straggly tail and an ungainly gait; though he didn't look the part, Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history. In the 1930s, when Americans longed to escape the grim realities of Depression-era life, four men turned Seabiscuit into a national hero. They were his fabulously wealthy owner Charles Howard, his famously silent and stubborn trainer Tom Smith and the two hard-bitten, gifted jockeys who rode him to glory. By following the paths that brought these four together and in telling the story of Seabiscuit's unlikely career, this film illuminates the precarious economic conditions that defined America in the 1930s and explores the fascinating behind-the-scenes world of thoroughbred racing. Scott Glenn narrates.
  • 7.1
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    Bataan Rescue

    episode S15.E12 july 2003
  • 5.8
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    Murder at Harvard

    episode S15.E13 july 2003