All "American Experience" Documentaries
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1.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
(1988)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.
Star: F. Murray Abraham
Votes: 86
2.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Radio Bikini
(1988)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History
It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. Shows great footage from these times and tells the story of the US Navy ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Kilon Bauno, John Smitherman, Warren Austin, Bernard Baruch
Votes: 674
3.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo
(1988)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A profile of historian Angie Debo and her exposure of the governmental conspiracy to steal mineral-rich lands from their tribal owners.
Director: Martha Sandlin | Stars: Nancy Allen, Rhonda Coullet, Angie Debo
Votes: 22
4.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream
(1988)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Journalist Eric Sevareid recounts his experiences growing up during the Great Depression and World War II.
Directors: Frank J. De Meo, Anthony Potter | Star: Eric Sevareid
Votes: 15
5.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
(1988)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Votes: 19
6.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
(1987)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A look at modern-day cowboys in the Wyoming Rockies.
Director: Jon Blair | Stars: Glenn Close, David McCullough
Votes: 22
7.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
(1988)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Filmmaker Robert Drew updates his 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) which followed the confrontation between President Kennedy and Alabama governor George Wallace.
Director: Robert Drew | Stars: Clarke Bittner, Nicholas Katzenbach, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy
Votes: 15
8.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
(1988)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life of Geronimo, as told by the Chiricahua Apaches.
Director: Neil Goodwin
Votes: 39
9.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
(1988)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans revisit the Alabama tenant system depicted in their 1936 book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men".
Stars: James Agee, Walker Evans
Votes: 14
10.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
That Rhythm, Those Blues
(1988)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary covering the R&B (rhythm and blues) field from the 1940s to the early 1950s. Included is footage of performances by major R&B singers of the time, and interviews with singers, producers and others involved in the field.
Director: George T. Nierenberg | Stars: Ralph Bass, Pat Boone, Charles Brown, Ruth Brown
Votes: 24
11.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Radio Priest
(1988)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of Father Charles Coughlin who, during the Depression, used the radio to protest against what he saw as society's ills.
Director: Irv Drasnin | Star: Irv Drasnin
Votes: 21
12.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Hearts and Hands
(1988)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The historical events of nineteenth-century America as depicted in the quilts of the country's women.
Director: Pat Ferrero
Votes: 11
13.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Views of a Vanishing Frontier
(1988)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
An exploration of the Native Americans of 1830s western America, as seen through the eyes of European travelers Prince Maximilian of Bavaria and Swiss artist Karl Bodmer.
Director: Craig B. Fisher | Stars: George P. Horse Capture, Werner Klemperer, Sam Waterston
Votes: 11
14.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
(1989)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
A profile on American writer Eudora Welty.
Director: Patchy Wheatley | Stars: Charles Kuralt, Eudora Welty
Votes: 10
15.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The World That Moses Built
(1989)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary about architect Robert Moses who is responsible for public works projects like the Lincoln Center and the United Nations in New York.
Stars: Robert Moses, Mark Obenhaus
Votes: 15
16.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline
(1989)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of Emeline Bachelder, an early 19th-century New Englander who married a younger man - only to discover that he was the son she had give up when she was fourteen.
Director: Rocky Collins | Stars: Velma Brown, Aimee Epping, Billie Gammon, Florence Marshall
Votes: 29
17.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Great Air Race of 1924
(1989)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Follows the 1924 attempt by four U.S. Army Air Corps biplanes to circumnavigate the globe.
Director: David Grubin | Star: David McCulloch
Votes: 21
18.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Demon Rum
(1989)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The spread of Prohibition from Henry Ford's Detroit factories nationwide
Director: Thomas Lennon | Star: Peter Thomas
Votes: 25
19.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
A Family Gathering
(1989)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Lise Yasui explores three generations of her Japanese-American family - from their immigration to Oregon in the early 1900s through their imprisonment in internment camps during World War Two.
Directors: Ann Tegnell, Lise Yasui
Votes: 29
20.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Great War: 1918
(1989)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History
America's experiences in France during World War I.
Director: Tom Weidlinger
Votes: 31
21.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Forever Baseball
(1989)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A nostalgic treatment of the national pastime and its meaning in history.
Director: Irv Drasnin | Star: Irv Drasnin
Votes: 12
22.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Mr. Sears' Catalogue
(1989)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The story behind the mail order tome that brought merchandise (or dreams of it) within reach of Americans far and wide.
Directors: Edward Gray, Kenneth Levis | Star: Mark Obenhaus
Votes: 27
23.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
(1989)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of Yosemite told through the diary of one of the first white Americans to visit the California valley.
Star: Robert Redford
Votes: 12
24.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Adam Clayton Powell
(1989)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary on the life of civil rights advocate Powell, including his career as a Harlem minister and a US Congressman.
Votes: 16
25.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Journey to America
(1989)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
A tribute to the over 12 million immigrants entering the United States between 1890-1920.
Votes: 12
26.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Ballad of a Mountain Man: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford
(1989)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Story of a folklore historian who sought to preserve the traditional music of the Appalachians for posterity.
Director: David Hoffman | Stars: Alan Bleviss, Merton Brown, Richard Dillingham, Berta Frady
Votes: 11
27.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
(1989)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The work of a notable civil rights crusader in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Director: William Greaves | Stars: Troy Duster, Al Freeman Jr., Paula Giddings, Toni Morrison
Votes: 22
28.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Orphans of the Storm
(1989)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Thousands of children were evacuated overseas from Britain during World War II to escape the bombing of London and possible invasion by the Germans. This is the story of the children sent to live with foster families in America.
29.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Forbidden City, USA
(1990)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The Americanization of Chinese people in the 1920s and 30s, including public roles that ran counter to their cultural history.
Director: Arthur Dong
Votes: 10
30.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Battle for Wilderness
(1990)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Votes: 9
31.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad
(1990)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A chronicle of the organized efforts to help slaves find freedom in the north.
Director: Orlando Bagwell | Star: Ruby Dee
Votes: 24
32.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Lindbergh
(1990)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History
After his famous flight, Charles Lindbergh becomes known to all the world but struggles with life in the limelight.
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Arnold Forster, Brendan Gill, Stacy Keach, Max Lerner
Votes: 29
33.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Nixon: Part I
(1990)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Richard M. Nixon was one of American history's most powerful figures. Recalling events etched in U.S. memory, this three-hour program explores a fateful mix of strength and weakness that ... See full summary »
Director: David Espar | Stars: Helen Gahagan, Will Lyman, Richard Nixon
Votes: 94
34.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Richard Nixon: Part II
(1990)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Richard M. Nixon was one of American history's most powerful figures. Recalling events etched in U.S. memory, this three-hour program explores a fateful mix of strength and weakness that ... See full summary »
Directors: Elizabeth Deane, David Espar, Marilyn Mellowes | Star: Will Lyman
Votes: 93
35.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Nixon: Part III
(1990)
TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Richard M. Nixon was one of American history's most powerful figures. Recalling events etched in U.S. memory, this three-hour program explores a fateful mix of strength and weakness that ... See full summary »
Directors: Elizabeth Deane, David Espar, Marilyn Mellowes | Star: Will Lyman
Votes: 75
36.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
God Bless America and Poland, Too
(1990)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Polish immigration in the 1910s and the contributions of Poles to the United States.
Votes: 9
37.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Insanity on Trial
(1990)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The assassination of President James Garfield in 1880 by Charles Guiteau, who believed his actions were ordained by God, resulted in a trial where the plea "innocent by reason of insanity" was used for the first time.
Director: Rocky Collins | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Ron Vawter, Bart Whiteman, Robert Fields
Votes: 17
38.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Satellite Sky
(1990)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Robert Stone
Votes: 24
39.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Crash of 1929
(1990)
TV-G | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Examines the stock market crash of 1929 with interviews from descendants of several Wall Street insiders.
Stars: Philip Bosco, Reuben L. Cain, Calvin Coolidge, Rita Mitchell Cushman
Votes: 105
40.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Iron Road
(1990)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The building of the railroad between Sacramento, California and Omaha, Nebraska.
Director: Neil Goodwin
Votes: 13
41.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
French Dance Tonight
(1990)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The distinctive music of Louisiana including Cajun and Zydeco performances.
42.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil
(1990)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Oil exploration and the fortunes and failures of the independent opportunists who searched for it.
Director: Robert Tranchin | Stars: Mat Batron, Ligget Crim, Bertha Delz, Frankie Delz
Votes: 9
43.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
After the Crash
(1991)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Star: Jason Robards
Votes: 14
44.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Los Mineros
(1991)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Votes: 10
45.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Coney Island
(1991)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The film explores the beginnings of America's first amusement park and takes us through its good times all the way up to its end. The show was originally produced for PBS's American Experience.
Director: Ric Burns | Stars: Philip Bosco, Andrei Codrescu, Frederick P. Fried, Vincent Gardenia
Votes: 140
46.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
LBJ: Part 1 - Beautiful Texas
(1991)
TV-PG | 112 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Award winning filmmaker David Grubin profiles one of the most controversial U.S. presidents, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who rose from obscurity to the pinnacle of power, only to suffer ... See full summary »
Director: David Grubin | Stars: David McCullough, Joe Cervetto, John Connally, Robert Dallek
Votes: 118
47.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
LBJ: Part 2 - My Fellow Americans
(1991)
TV-PG | 111 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Award winning filmmaker David Grubin profiles one of the most controversial U.S. presidents, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who rose from obscurity to the pinnacle of power, only to suffer ... See full summary »
Stars: Lyndon B. Johnson, David McCullough, George Ball, Larry Berman
Votes: 110
48.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
(1991)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
A story of the formation and service of the first all-Black military unit in the United States during the Civil War.
Director: Jacqueline Shearer | Stars: Rocky Carroll, Laurence Fishburne, Morgan Freeman, Carl Lumbly
Votes: 32
49.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Scandalous Mayor
(1991)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of the corrupt political dominance of Mayor James Curley and its effect on the city of Boston in the early 20th century.
Star: David McCullough
Votes: 10
50.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Johnstown Flood
(1991)
TV-PG | 64 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Exploding dam kills thousands in massive flood catastrophe in Pennsylvania in 1889.
Director: Mark Bussler | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Patrick Jordan, Jennifer Lee Dake, Charles King
Votes: 128
51.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance
(1991)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Recounting the historic attack of 1941, including the planning and military outlook of both the United States and Japan at the time.
Directors: Lance Bird, John Crowley, Tom Johnson | Star: Jason Robards
Votes: 16
52.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
G-Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover
(1991)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
To understand J. Edgar Hoover's rise to power is to understand the America of the 1920s and 1930s and the building of both the power and the mythology of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Director: Irv Drasnin | Stars: David McCullough, Irv Drasnin
Votes: 23
53.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo
(1991)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Robert Levi | Stars: Julian Bond, Duke Ellington, Mercer Ellington
Votes: 30
54.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Quiz Show Scandal
(1992)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
America's love affair with the quiz show is dealt a blow when it's revealed that the games are fixed.
Director: Michael R. Lawrence | Stars: Will Lyman, Herb Stempel
Votes: 28
55.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Love in the Cold War
(1992)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of Eugene Dennis and his wife Peggy, communist activists in the post-World War II era.
Votes: 9
56.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Wild by Law
(1992)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Votes: 11
57.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Barnum's Big Top
(1992)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Story of P.T. Barnum and his role in developing the American Circus into a large business and a cultural force.
Director: Rocky Collins | Stars: David McCullough, Robert Lansing
Votes: 10
58.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
In the White Man's Image
(1992)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In 1875, Captain Richard Pratt ordered 72 Indian warriors suspected who had fought white colonists to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. Once there, Pratt began an experiment which ... See full summary »
Director: Christine Lesiak | Stars: Pete Boughn, Ben Bradlee, Wiley Harker, Janice Harlan
Votes: 25
59.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Kennedys (Part 1): the Father, 1900-61
(1992)
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Directors: James A. DeVinney, David Espar, Marilyn Mellowes, Phillip Whitehead | Stars: David McCullough, Stacy Keach
Votes: 52
60.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Kennedys: Part 2 - The Sons, 1961-80
(1992)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: James A. DeVinney | Stars: David McCullough, Stacy Keach
Votes: 47
61.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Donner Party
(1992)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary exploring the struggles of The Donner Party, a group of American pioneers and their two Indigenous guides who became stranded in the Sierras during a horrible winter.
Director: Ric Burns | Stars: David McCullough, J.D. Cannon, Timothy Hutton, Gene Jones
Votes: 469
62.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
(1992)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Denzel Washington
Votes: 11
63.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King
(1992)
Approved | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The personal development of George Washington is the focus as Producer David Sutherland brings to life a uniquely human Washington who transformed himself from social climber into a patriot willing to give up everything for a higher cause.
Director: David Sutherland | Stars: David McCullough, Robert Dawidoff, Thad Tate, Paul Longmore
Votes: 51
64.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Last Stand at Little Big Horn
(1992)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The historic battle discussed from the perspective of both sides that participated in the conflict.
Votes: 34
65.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
If You Knew Sousa
(1992)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of "march king" John Philip Sousa and the connections between his music and the mood of the nation during his time.
Director: Tom Spain | Stars: David McCullough, Helen Sousa Albert, Pauline Bierley, Keith Brion
Votes: 13
66.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Simple Justice
(1993)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The NAACP and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall build a Supreme Court case against the policy of segregation.
Director: Helaine Head | Stars: Michael Burgess, Peter Francis James, Donald Chambers, Scott Whitehurst
Votes: 117
67.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish
(1993)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The short but notable career of the coach and his team with stories from some of those who remember him.
Director: Lawrence R. Hott | Star: Joe Mantegna
Votes: 11
68.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Sit Down and Fight
(1993)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of Walter Reuther and the struggle to unionize the automobile workers of the US in the 1930s.
Director: Charlotte Zwerin | Stars: Tresa Hughes, Victor Reuther
Votes: 13
69.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
(1993)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Star: Alex Chadwick
Votes: 23
70.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Goin' Back to T-Town
(1993)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A profile of the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma - once a flourishing but segregated community.
Star: Ossie Davis
Votes: 61
71.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage
(1993)
TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Profiling the pioneering aviator whose plane disappeared during her 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the Earth.
Director: Nancy Porter | Stars: Kathy Bates, Sally Chapman, Amelia Earhart, George Palmer Putnam
Votes: 58
72.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Hunt for Pancho Villa
(1993)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Hector Galan | Star: Linda Hunt
Votes: 18
73.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Ike (Part I)
(1993)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Adriana Bosch | Star: David McCullough
Votes: 37
74.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Ike: Part II
(1993)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Adriana Bosch
Votes: 29
75.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Hurricane of '38
(1993)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Survivors recall the hurricane that devastated Rhode Island and New York's Long Island.
Star: David McCullough
Votes: 33
76.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian
(1994)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The last member of a diminished Native American tribe from California makes himself known at the beginning of the 20th century.
Star: Linda Hunt
Votes: 18
77.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
(1994)
TV-PG | 150 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Orlando Bagwell | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Sharon 10X, Benjamin 2X, Mohmaed Al-Faysal
Votes: 150
78.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference
(1994)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
As the campaign to force Jews out of Germany ramps up, the American government blocks efforts to help rescue many of these displaced persons, and Americans' antisemitism only seems to get worse.
Director: Marty Ostrow | Star: Hal Linden
Votes: 71
79.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
D-Day Remembered
(1994)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An award-winning documentary of the invasion of Normandy in World War II, using rare archival films and pictures from British, American, and German archives. The narrator provides the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Guggenheim | Stars: David McCullough, Edward A. Askew, John C. Ausland, Joe Bacile
Votes: 81
80.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
FDR: Part I
(1994)
TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who steered this country through two monumental crises: the Depression and World War II. FDR ... See full summary »
Director: David Grubin | Stars: Winston Churchill, David McCullough, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Votes: 150
81.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
FDR: Part II
(1994)
TV-PG | 69 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who steered this country through two monumental crises: the Depression and World War II. FDR ... See full summary »
Director: David Grubin | Stars: David McCullough, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, King George V
Votes: 79
82.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Telegrams from the Dead
(1994)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Nineteenth-century Spiritualism. Life after death proved by "science."
Director: Rocky Collins | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Ann Braude, Jon Butler, Kevin Murray
Votes: 15
83.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Midnight Ramble
(1994)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about the history of African American race films during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Directors: Pearl Bowser, Bestor Cram | Stars: Toni Cade Bambara, Robert Hall, Elton Fax, Pearl Bowser
Votes: 42
84.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Battle of the Bulge: World War II's Deadliest Battle
(1994)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary chronicling the history of World War II's "Battle of the Bulge", when the German army launched a major surprise counteroffensive against the American forces that caught them ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Lennon | Stars: David McCullough, Guy Franz Arend, Omar N. Bradley, Clyde Burkholder
Votes: 103
85.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
One Woman, One Vote
(1995)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Star: Susan Sarandon
Votes: 37
86.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Way West: Part I
(1995)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Votes: 23
87.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Way West: Part II
(1995)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Votes: 20
88.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Murder of the Century
(1995)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary chronicling the events surrounding the murder of famed architect Stanford White by millionaire Harry Thaw over the affections of showgirl Evelyn Nesbitt in New York in 1906.
Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Brendan Gill, David Lowe, Suzannah Lessard
Votes: 45
89.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Edison's Miracle of Light
(1995)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of Thomas Edison's creation of a safe electric light system.
Director: John W. Walter | Stars: Peter Coyote, Thomas A. Edison
Votes: 15
90.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Chicago 1968
(1995)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
American Experience looks at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where Vice President Hubert Humphrey won his party's nomination for president amid massive civil unrest and ... See full summary »
Stars: David McCullough, William Stanley Merwin, Tom Wicker, Albert Eisele
Votes: 17
91.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Orphan Trains
(1995)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
In the 1850s, thousands of homeless children roamed New York City streets in search of food and shelter. The Children's Aid Society sent the children on trains to rural areas, where families would take in the orphans.
Directors: Janet Graham, Edward Gray | Stars: Stacy Keach, Charles Loring Brace IV, Matt Carlson, Dan Desmond
Votes: 57
92.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Freedom on My Mind
(1996)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Directors: Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford | Stars: Chude Pamela Allen, Claude 'Pappy' Allen, Ella Baker, Ross Barnett
Votes: 16
93.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Daley: The Last Boss
(1996)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary about Chicago's mayor, Richard J. Daley.
Director: Barak Goodman | Stars: Richard J. Daley, Richard Barnett, George Bell, Timuel Black
Votes: 13
94.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
(1996)
TV-PG | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also as a relative complete bio of Hearst.
Directors: Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon | Stars: Richard Ben Cramer, William Alland, Thomas Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich
Votes: 1,458
95.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Wright Stuff
(1996)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Nancy Porter | Stars: Garrison Keillor, David McCullough
Votes: 29
96.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Spy in the Sky
(1996)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of America's high-altitude U-2 spy plane.
Director: Linda Garmon | Stars: David McCullough, Roy Scheider
Votes: 23
97.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (Part I)
(1996)
TV-PG | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An assassin's bullet ended the life of William McKinley in 1901, making his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, an "accidental" president at the age of 42.
Director: David Grubin | Stars: David McCullough, John Morton Blum, John Milton Cooper, Edith Derby Williams
Votes: 117
98.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (Part II)
(1996)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The film of the ships in New York harbor at the time of T.R.'s return is run backwards, as the smoke is seen going back into the smoke stacks.
Director: David Grubin | Star: Jason Robards
Votes: 63
99.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
(1997)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Austin Hoyt | Stars: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers
Votes: 17
100.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Hawaii's Last Queen
(1997)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Stars: David McCullough, Anna Deavere Smith, H.J. Bartels, Thelma Bugbee
Votes: 38
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