TV Guide: American Experience

Listing: LBJ

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0400

Mon Oct 20 09:00 PM PBS A two-part political biography of LBJ begins with his rise as a New Dealer in the 1930s; the “stolen” Senate election in 1948; his influence as Majority Leader and loss of it as Vice President.

Listing: Nixon

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0400

Mon Oct 13 09:00 PM PBS A profile of Richard Nixon, from his childhood in California to his resignation from the Presidency. Included: comments from John D. Ehrlichman, John Dean, Charles Colson and Elliot Richardson; archival footage and stills.

Video: Eugene O'Neill

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:21 -0400

Playwright Eugene O'Neill's turbulent story: from childhood through the years of his prolific career (including "The Iceman Cometh," "A Touch of the Poet," and the autobiographical masterpiece "Long Day's Journey Into Night") to his lonely, painful death

Video: Eugene O'Neill

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:20 -0400

Video: The Crash of 1929

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:19 -0400

The unbounded optimism of the age -- and the shocking consequences when reality finally hit on October 29th.

Video: The Crash of 1929

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:18 -0400

The unbounded optimism of the age -- and the shocking consequences when reality finally hit on October 29th.

Video: Chicago: City of the Century

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:17 -0400

Chicago rose from a swampy frontier town to become the quintessential American city of the nineteenth century.

Video: Chicago: City of the Century

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:16 -0400

Chicago rose from a swampy frontier town to become the quintessential American city of the nineteenth century.

Video: The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:14 -0400

The family whose songs and style remain the most copied and influential in American folk and country music.

Video: The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:13 -0400

The family whose songs and style remain the most copied and influential in American folk and country music.

Video: Building the Alaska Highway

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:12 -0400

One of the biggest and most difficult homeland defense projects ever undertaken.

Video: Building the Alaska Highway

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:11 -0400

One of the biggest and most difficult homeland defense projects ever undertaken.

Video: A Brilliant Madness

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:10 -0400

The story of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash.

Video: A Brilliant Madness

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:09 -0400

The story of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash.

Video: The Boy in the Bubble

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:08 -0400

When David Vetter died at the age of 12, he was already world famous: the boy in the plastic bubble. Mythologized as the plucky, handsome child who defied the odds, his life story is in fact even more dramatic.

Video: The Boy in the Bubble

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:07 -0400

Video: The Berlin Airlift

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:06 -0400

After the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, British and American pilots delivered food and fuel to the city's two million civilians and twenty thousand allied soldiers for nearly a year. Using re-enactments and personal stories of those who lived through t

Video: The Berlin Airlift

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:05 -0400

Video: Ansel Adams

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:03 -0400

The legendary photographer who captured America's wild beauty.

Video: Ansel Adams

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:02 -0400

The legendary photographer who captured America's wild beauty.

Video: Annie Oakley

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:01 -0400

The star attraction of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Annie Oakley thrilled audiences around the world with her daring shooting feats. Her act helped fuel turn-of-the-century nostalgia for the vanished, mythical world of the American West.

Video: Annie Oakley

PBS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:00 -0400

Photo: American Experience - "Walt Whitman"

courtesy Library of Congress/NBC — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "Minik, the Lost Eskimo" - Robert E. Peary, the man usually credited with first reaching the North Pole, wearing furs and driving a sled in 1909.

courtesy Corbis/PBS — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "George H.W. Bush"

courtesy George Bush Presidential Library/PBS — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400

American Experience, George H W Bush

Photo: American Experience - "Buffalo Bill"

courtesy Denver Public Library/PBS — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "Kit Carson"

courtesy Library of Congress/PBS — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "Grand Central"

courtesy Corbis/PBS — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage" - Amelia Earhart

courtesy Seaver Center for Western History Research/PBS — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" - Jim Jones

courtesy The Peoples Temple Collection/California Historical Society/PBS — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400

American Experience, Jim Jones

Photo: American Experience - "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" - Peoples Temple member

courtesy The Peoples Temple Collection/California Historical Society/PBS — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience and Frontline- "The Mormons" - Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

courtesy Shearer Images/Corbis/PBS — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "New Orleans"

courtesy Corbis/PBS — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "New Orleans"

courtesy Phillip Gould/Corbis/PBS — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "Eugene O'Neill" - Eugene O'Neill and Carlotta Monterey

courtesy Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library/Yale University/PBS — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0400

American Experience, Eugene ONeill

Photo: American Experience - "Eugene O'Neill" - Eugene O'Neill during rehearsals for The Iceman Cometh, 1946.

courtesy George Karger/PBS — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0400

American Experience, Eugene ONeill

Photo: American Experience - "Jesse James"

courtesy Missouri State Archives/PBS — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "John & Abigail Adams" - Simon Russell Beale as "John Adams"

courtesy Webb Chappell/PBS — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "Las Vegas: An Unconventional History" - Gamblers playing roulette at the Sands casino.

courtesy UNLV/PBS — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "Las Vegas: An Unconventional History" - A 1948 view of the downtown casino district on Fremont Street known as "Glitter Gulch."

courtesy UNLV/PBS — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: American Experience - "RFK" - Robert F. Kennedy waves to supporters during a campaign appearance April 24, 1968 in Bloomington, Ind.

courtesy Larry Crewell, Bloomington, Ind. Herald-Telephone/PBS — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0400

American Experience, Robert Kennedy

Photo: American Experience - "RFK" - Robert Kennedy

courtesy The Estate of Stanley Tretick/PBS — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0400

American Experience, Robert Kennedy