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American Experience: RFK

This documentary explores Robert Kennedy's life and his search for a purpose to devote it to both before and after his legendary brother's death. Sympathetic and tragic, the perspective of this program is that Robert Kennedy's true voice was suppressed over and over again until it was silenced forever… more info >>

Release Date: 10/05/2004

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American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl

The American Experience presents Surviving the Dust Bowl, a one-hour account of the farmers of the Southern Plains who endured extraordinary conditions during the 1930s. This video traces the families as they traveled to the Plains in search of the good life. Finding rich topsoil, they felt they had… more info >>

Release Date: 04/24/2007

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American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

This in-depth documentary explores the death of Abraham Lincoln, the first American president to be assassinated. Gunned down in the second month of his triumphant and markedly peaceful second term, Lincoln's death had tremendous effects on the shocked American populace, making waves in everything from… more info >>

Release Date: 04/07/2009

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American Experience: The Battle of the Bulge

This documentary on one of the crucial and most costly battles of World War II has gets a simple presentation for this DVD edition. American Experience: Battle of the Bulge has been transferred to disc in the full-frame aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and the audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Stereo.… more info >>

Release Date: 04/13/2004

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American Experience: The Civilian Conservation Corps

Discover how President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the pressing economic and environmental challenges of his time in this documentary about the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the agency founded to shape up our economy by creating jobs in natural resource conservation. The year was 1929: The stock… more info >>

Release Date: 12/08/2009

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American Experience: The Crash of 1929

This program is part of the PBS series American Experience. In this episode, the camera turns to that dark day in America when the economic foundations of the country came tumbling down. The stock market crash, which occurred on October 29, 1929, changed the American experience forever. Fortunes were… more info >>

Release Date: 12/15/2009

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American Experience: The Donner Party

This DVD of the American Experience from PBS tells the story of the Donner Party, the ambitious group who traveled from Illinois to California in 1846. Beginning in the spring, the group split off from the rest of the emigrants to take an alternate route across the Great Basin. They went through blizzards… more info >>

Release Date: 10/18/2005

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American Experience: The Great San Francisco Earthquake

In April of 1906, the grand and thriving city of San Francisco was host to luminaries including writer Jack London, world-class opera tenor Enrico Caruso, and movie star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. At 5:30 in the morning on April 18, one of the most disastrous earthquakes in U.S. history shook the city… more info >>

Release Date: 01/03/2006

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American Experience: The Great Transatlantic Cable

This documentary chronicles millionaire Cyrus Field's quest to run a cable across the Atlantic ocean, enabling wired communication between Britain and America, a task he finally completed in 1866. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

Release Date: 04/26/2005

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American Experience: The Great War 1918

This episode of WGBH Boston's globally-acclaimed American Experience series for PBS, entitled American Experience: The Great War 1918, uses archival footage and candid interviews with survivors of WWI to detail -- in great horror -- how the automatization of warfare virtually destroyed every romantic… more info >>

Release Date: 01/03/2006

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American Experience: The Hurricane of 38

Nearly 600 drowned, burned, or killed from debris driven by a 183 mph wind; almost 9,000 houses flooded or smashed to splinters; even stone buildings swept away by the 15-foot high wall of water known as a "storm surge." In the days before radar and flying meteorological labs, hurricanes could strengthen… more info >>

Release Date: 06/05/2007

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American Experience: The Lobotomist

In this installment of American Experience, filmmakers take a closer look at one of the most controversial medical procedures in the history of medicine. Back in the early-20th Century, individuals suffering from mental illness had little hope of ever staging a full recovery: Psychiatric medications… more info >>

Release Date: 01/28/2008

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American Experience: The Massie Affair

In 1931, Hawaii had not yet been granted statehood, but the presence of the United States was already strong, with the islands becoming a major tourist destination and the American military taking advantage of its strategic location. Late in the summer that year, news of a shocking crime swept the islands… more info >>

Release Date: 05/03/2005

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American Experience: The Polio Crusade

Documentary filmmaker Sarah Colt draws on personal accounts of polio survivors to trace the story of the tireless crusader who rallied a nation against a little known virus that spread terror through the town of Wytheville, Virginia back in the summer of 1950. It was an epidemic the likes of which Wytheville… more info >>

Release Date: 04/07/2009

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American Experience: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

The life and legacy of atomic bomb creator J. Robert Oppenheimer serves as the subject of this installment of PBS's American Experience. His name forever bound to the Manhattan Project, America's most famous top-secret initiative, Oppenheimer presided over the assembly of the atomic bomb that helped… more info >>

Release Date: 03/24/2009

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American Experience: The Wizard of Photography

This edition of The American Experience investigates the life and work of George Eastman, the man who brought cameras and photography into the lives of millions of Americans. Narrated by Judith Light, this video chronicles the fierce competition and often embarrassing failures Eastman had to overcome… more info >>

Release Date: 09/09/2008

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American Experience: The Wright Stuff

Written, produced, and directed by Nancy Porter, this documentary chronicles how the eccentric Wright brothers overcame their own sibling bickering and the skepticism of the world to build the first successful flying machine. As Tom Crouch of the National Air and Space Museum explains in an interview,… more info >>

Release Date: 08/05/2003

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American Experience: Vietnam: A Television History

The 11-hour documentary Vietnam: A Television History uses archival footage in order to tell the story of America's involvement in Southeast Asia from 1945 through 1975. The disc offers a standard full-frame transfer. English soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. Supplemental materials include… more info >>

Release Date: 07/27/2004

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American Experience: Walt Whitman

In this documentary exploring the life of Leaves of Grass author Walt Whitman, fans of the poet are invited to explore his life story from the days of his working-class childhood, through his time as a Brooklyn-based newspaper reporter, and his unending quest to ensure that his work gained the attention… more info >>

Release Date: 04/22/2008

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American Experience: We Shall Remain [3 Discs]

Release Date: 05/12/2009

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American Farm [Collector's Edition]

Filmmaker James Spione simultaneously demystifies and pays tribute to a dying way of life with this documentary concerning his family's hundred year old farm. Located in Richfield Springs, New York and situated on land that has been in the family for over 150 years, the Ames family dairy farm has been… more info >>

Release Date: 02/19/2008

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American Frontier [3 Discs]

Release Date: 09/20/2005

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American Future: A History [WS] [2 Discs]

The votes in the 2008 presidential election have been cast, and as the citizens of the United States struggle to remain optimistic in the wake of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Enron, and Baghdad, cultural critic Simon Schama explores America's frustrating attempts to come to terms with its own limits. At… more info >>

Release Date: 01/20/2009

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American Gangster

This documentary look at the origins of American crime and gangsters features actual film footage and photographs of a number of famous criminals, including Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger, Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel, and others. ~ All Movie Guide

Release Date: 02/12/2008