American Experience Season 27

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27x01 Cold War Roadshow aired Nov 18, 2014

Robert Ripley's obsession with the odd and keen eye for the curious made him one of the most successful men in America during the Great Depression. Over thre... read more

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27x02 Ripley: Believe It or Not aired Jan 06, 2015

The rise of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina during the 1960s is recalled. In 1963, Bob Jones Sr. started the state's chapter for the racist organization, ... read more

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27x03 Klansville USA aired Jan 13, 2015

EDISON explores the complex alchemy that accounts for the enduring celebrity of America's most famous inventor, offering new perspectives on the man and his ... read more

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27x04 Edison aired Jan 27, 2015

In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at ... read more

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27x05 The Big Burn aired Feb 03, 2015

By the dawn of the 19th century, the most deadly killer in human history, tuberculosis, had killed one in seven of all the people who had ever lived. Through... read more

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27x05 The Forgotten Plague aired Feb 10, 2015

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27x06 The Forgotten Plague aired Feb 10, 2015

The North Vietnamese Army was nearing Saigon and the South Vietnamese resistance was at a low. Nearly 5,000 Americans still needed to remove from South Viet... read more

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27x07 Last Days in Vietnam aired Apr 28, 2015

First responders, journalists, shop owners, those inside the pressure-packed control center of Con Edison on West End Avenue, and other New Yorkers tell abou... read more

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27x08 Blackout aired Jul 14, 2015

In 1966, the year Walt Disney died, 240 million people saw a Disney movie, 100 million tuned in to a Disney television program, 80 million bought Disney merc... read more

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27x09 Walt Disney (2) aired Sep 15, 2015

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE offers an unprecedented look at the life and legacy of one of America’s most enduring and influential storytellers in Walt Disney, a new ... read more

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27x10 American Comandante aired Nov 17, 2015

When William Morgan was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961, his strange story seemed to vanish from the popular imagination as quickly as it ... read more

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27x11 The Pilgrims aired Nov 24, 2015

The challenges the Pilgrims faced in making new lives for themselves still resonate almost 400 years later: the tensions of faith and freedom in American soc... read more

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27x12 [UPDATE] Zoot Suit Riots (re-run, don't add) aired Apr 15, 2023

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