American Experience Season 19

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19x01 Eyes on the Prize (1): Awakenings (1954-1956) aired Oct 02, 2006

Awakenings (1954-1956) Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murde... read more

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19x02 Eyes on the Prize (2): Fighting Back (1957-1962) aired Oct 02, 2006

American Experience re-broadcast of the 1987 documentary on civil rights by Blackside, Inc. Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) Black college students... read more

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19x03 Eyes on the Prize (3): Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) aired Oct 09, 2006

American Experience re-broadcast of the 1987 documentary on civil rights by Blackside, Inc Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964) Mississippi's grass-... read more

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19x04 Eyes on the Prize (4): No Easy Walk (1961-1963) aired Oct 09, 2006

Science enables advances in reproduction and the establishment of a new medical industry, but often not one as successful as people imagine.

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19x05 Eyes on the Prize (5): Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964) aired Oct 16, 2006

Walter Reed travels to Cuba to investigate the radical theory that mosquitoes spread deadly Yellow Fever.

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19x06 Eyes on the Prize (6): Bridge to Freedom (1965) aired Oct 16, 2006

The story of gold in California and the migration, immigration, and economy that remained after the riches were gone.

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19x07 Test Tube Babies aired Oct 23, 2006

It could have been the start of World War III. Instead, it became the largest humanitarian campaign the world had ever seen. On June 24, 1948, one of the fir... read more

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19x08 The Great Fever aired Oct 30, 2006

The history and ramifications of biological weapons and the stand the United States took in ending further research.

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19x09 The Gold Rush aired Nov 06, 2006

The historical, social, and geographic factors that shaped one of America's most uniquely individual cities.

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19x10 The Berlin Airlift aired Jan 29, 2007

The story of the career of the extremely influential evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.

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19x11 The Living Weapon aired Feb 05, 2007

The details behind the beginnings and end of Peoples Temple headed by Jim Jones, including the tragic suicides of many of its members in the jungles of Guyana.

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19x12 New Orleans aired Feb 12, 2007

A chronicle of Haight Ashbury in the summer of 1967 and the peak of American youth counterculture.

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19x13 Sister Aimee aired Apr 02, 2007

A story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - its beginnings in 1830, the migration of its persecuted members, and its role and influence in t... read more

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19x14 Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple aired Apr 09, 2007

A story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - its beginnings in 1830, the migration of its persecuted members, and its role and influence in t... read more

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19x15 Summer of Love aired Apr 23, 2007

A profile of the aristocratic founding father, his efforts to bring federal economic reforms to the fledgling country, and how his aloof personality led to o... read more

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19x16 The Mormons (1): History aired Apr 30, 2007

For ages, the prospect of conceiving a human being in a laboratory seemed ripped from the pages of science fiction. Then, in 1978, everything changed. Tes... read more

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19x17 The Mormons (2): Church and State aired May 01, 2007

A story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - its beginnings in 1830, the migration of its persecuted members, and its role and influence in t... read more

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19x18 Alexander Hamilton aired May 14, 2007

A profile of the aristocratic founding father, his efforts to bring federal economic reforms to the fledgling country, and how his aloof personality led to o... read more

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