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American Experience: Chicago - City of the Century [4 Discs]

Release Date: 09/28/2004

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American Experience: Clemente

Roberto Clemente not only became the first Latino pro baseball player to achieve superstar status, he made sure that people were aware of the issues affecting areas of the world in need of humanitarian aid. His life was tragically cut short while on a flight to Nicaragua, but this film celebrates the… more info >>

Release Date: 06/03/2008

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American Experience: Coney Island

The emergence of American mass culture is intimately connected to the history of Coney Island. From the mid-1800s, New York's Coney Island emerged as a playland where the fabulous and fantastic met. Coney Island is Ric Burns' loving documentary about a unique time and place in American history where… more info >>

Release Date: 03/21/2006

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American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt

She was the first president's wife to testify before a Congressional committee, to hold press conferences, to speak before a national party convention, to write a syndicated column, to be a radio commentator, and to earn money as a lecturer. For more than 30 years, Eleanor Roosevelt was the most powerful… more info >>

Release Date: 01/10/2006

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American Experience: Emma Goldman

The remarkable life of the immigrant christened "the most dangerous woman in America" is explored in this documentary focusing on noted birth-control advocate and anti-military conscription activist Emma Goldman. A noted Russian-born woman who became the leader of the anarchist movement upon immigrating… more info >>

Release Date: 04/13/2004

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American Experience: Fly Girls

From 1942 to 1944, in the midst of World War II, more than 1,000 women were "trained to ferry aircraft, test planes, instruct male pilots, even tow targets for anti-aircraft artillery practice." Thirty-eight would give their lives. American Experience: Fly Girls is the story of the Women Airforce Service… more info >>

Release Date: 06/26/2006

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American Experience: George H.W. Bush

Originally produced as part of the "American Experience" documentary series, this in depth- look at the life and career of the 41st President of the United States draws on new scholarship and recently-conducted interviews with those closest to George H.W. Bush to highlight how an increasingly sluggish… more info >>

Release Date: 08/26/2008

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American Experience: Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

Direct descendants of the legendary Native American leader Geronimo aid in telling the story of the Apache medicine man, who, along with his followers, resisted white settlement. When the United States government attempted to move the Chiricahua Apache people to San Carlos Reservation from their traditional… more info >>

Release Date: 04/24/2007

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American Experience: Grand Central

Explore the tragedy that inspired Grand Central Terminal and follow the dramatic construction of this awe-inspiring landmark as the filmmakers from American Experience reflect on the origins and history of a spectacular monument to the railway era. The date was January 8, 1902: A southbound commuter… more info >>

Release Date: 02/19/2008

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American Experience: Hawaii's Last Queen

Before Hawaii was a hot spot for honeymooners and surfers, prior to its petition by American sugar growers for annexation to the United States, the Kingdom of Hawaii was an independent monarchy. Queen Lili'uokalani was its last queen. Succeeding to the throne in 1891, Lili'uokalani's focus was to frame… more info >>

Release Date: 04/04/2006

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American Experience: Hoover Dam

Built in the midst of the Great Depression under dangerous working conditions, the Hoover Dam has been described as one of the world's greatest engineering feats. American Experience: Hoover Dam is a 60-minute historical documentary that chronicles the dam's construction. Archival footage shows workers… more info >>

Release Date: 01/16/2006

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American Experience: Jesse James

This edition of the documentary series American Experience charts the life of infamous American outlaw Jesse James and the series of famous crimes he committed with the help of his brother, Frank. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Release Date: 11/14/2006

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American Experience: Jimmy Carter

Release Date: 02/14/2006

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American Experience: John Brown's Holy War

This 90-minute PBS documentary chronicles the turbulent life and times of Connecticut-born, Calvinist-raised abolitionist John Brown. His fervent hatred of slavery led Brown down the road of fanaticism after passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed settlers of the Western territories… more info >>

Release Date: 01/17/2007

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American Experience: Kit Carson

Whether you view him as one of the great American heroes or a deplorable crusader who savaged one of the West's most mighty Native American tribes, there's no denying that Christopher "Kit" Carson played a crucial role in the development of the United States. In this documentary, director Stephen Ives… more info >>

Release Date: 04/08/2008

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American Experience: Last Stand at Little Big Horn

This episode of The American Experience investigates an event that has become American folklore. By carefully considering the evidence available from both white and Native American accounts, the video reaches conclusions that are more complex than those commonly held. Custer emerges not as a fool, or… more info >>

Release Date: 06/29/2004

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American Experience: MacArthur [2 Discs]

General Douglas MacArthur is considered to be one of the most influential and important military personalities in America's history. American Experience: MacArthur provides a comprehensive biography of the controversial man's life and dramatic role in American military history. The program begins with… more info >>

Release Date: 05/23/2006

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American Experience: Minik, The Lost Eskimo

Though innumerable American history books have praised the doings of polar explorer Robert Peary over the years, few relayed a heartbreaking and seldom-publicized story tied directly to Peary's accomplishments. In the spring of 1897, Peary arrived in New York City, with a ship full of Greenland-born… more info >>

Release Date: 04/15/2008

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American Experience: Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore narrates the story of the one of America's most beloved monuments and the artist who crafted it. Driven by ego and self-confidence, sculptor Gutzon Borglum made a reputation for himself by carving a bust of Lincoln that Teddy Roosevelt displayed in the White House. When offered a chance… more info >>

Release Date: 06/07/2005

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American Experience: New York - The Center of the World

The three-hour documentary Center of the World is part of producer/director Ric Burns' massive 14 1/2-hour filmed history of New York City. More specifically, this film is an outgrowth of the five-minute coda to Burns' previous effort The City and the World: 1945 to Present, hastily added to acknowledge… more info >>

Release Date: 09/28/2004

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American Experience: New York Underground

Due to the thousands of immigrants flooding the streets each year, New York City, by the mid-1800s, was one of the most crowded places on earth. In March of 1888, a blizzard paralyzed the city and became the catalyst for a new development in public transportation: an underground rail system. After years… more info >>

Release Date: 10/24/2006

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American Experience: Nixon

Part of the American Experience series on the presidents, this three-hour documentary examines the quest, triumph, fall, and legacy of one of America's most fascinating and controversial presidents. From his modest beginnings among the lemon groves in Yorba Linda, CA, to his taking on the highest position… more info >>

Release Date: 08/26/2008

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American Experience: Public Enemy #1

John Dillinger was a no-good bank robber in Indiana who captured the public imagination with his bravado and humor. Perhaps it was the Great Depression and the practices of many banks that made the populace root for the man who robbed banks and sent postcards saying "Wish You Were Here" to the Indiana… more info >>

Release Date: 03/01/2007

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American Experience: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

In 1962, the New Yorker magazine serialized and the Houghton Mifflin Company published biologist Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, which warned of the dangers of unfettered use of pesticides and herbicides. The book set off a firestorm of negative and positive reaction that ultimately resulted in… more info >>

Release Date: 06/26/2007

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American Experience: Remember the Alamo

In the 1830s, Texas was under the control of Mexico, but as an increasing number of Mexicans began to immigrate to Texas alongside the substantial community of Americans who had come to settle the territory, Mexico began to more aggressively assert its rule; however, the new American settlers began… more info >>

Release Date: 04/27/2004