American Experience

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

season 35

serie United States 1988

Episode rating

Season 35
7.1
E1
7.9
E2
7.3
E3
7.7
E4
7.5
E5
6.9
E6
7.5
E7
7.3
E8
6.4
E9

Cast of season 35

In order of relevance in the season

Episodes of season 359

  • 7.1
    /10

    The Lie Detector
    episode S35.E1 january 2023
    Discover the story of the polygraph, the controversial device that transformed modern police work, seized headlines and was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool. A tale of good intentions, twisted morals and unintended consequences.
  • 7.9
    /10

    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
    episode S35.E2 january 2023
    An in-depth biography of the influential author whose ground-breaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
    episode S35.E3 february 2023
    Monopoly is America's favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. But behind the myth of the game's creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing.
  • 7.7
    /10

    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
    /10

    The Sun Queen
    episode S35.E5 april 2023
    Scientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. Though undercut and thwarted by her male colleagues, she persevered to design the first successfully solar-heated house in 1948 and held more than 20 patents.
  • 6.9
    /10

    Casa Susanna
    episode S35.E6 june 2023
    In the '50s and '60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.
  • 7.5
    /10

    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.
  • 7.3
    /10

    The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools
    episode S35.E8 september 2023
    A look at attempts to desegregate schools in Leland, Mississippi.
  • 6.4
    /10

    The War on Disco
    episode S35.E9 october 2023