Pbs American Experience Movies

  • 2005
    Two Days in October

    Two Days in October

    Two Days in October

    02005HD

    Based on David Maraniss's book They Marched into Sunlight, a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that...

    Two Days in October
  • 2020
    The Poison Squad

    The Poison Squad

    The Poison Squad

    82020HD

    The story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley who, determined to banish dangerous substances from dinner tables, took on the powerful food...

    The Poison Squad
  • 1999
    Meltdown at Three Mile Island

    Meltdown at Three Mile Island

    Meltdown at Three Mile Island

    51999HD

    In the predawn hours of March 28, 1979, a reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, began to overheat. The...

    Meltdown at Three Mile Island
  • 2017
    The Great War

    The Great War

    The Great War

    72017HD

    Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses,...

    The Great War
  • 2018
    The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age

    62018HD

    In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the...

    The Gilded Age
  • 2020
    McCarthy

    McCarthy

    McCarthy

    82020HD

    "McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power after a stunning victory in an election no one...

    McCarthy
  • 2020
    The Man Who Tried to Feed the World

    The Man Who Tried to Feed the World

    The Man Who Tried to Feed the World

    02020HD

    The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India's famine problem but would go on to lead a...

    The Man Who Tried to Feed the World
  • 2022
    Plague at the Golden Gate

    Plague at the Golden Gate

    Plague at the Golden Gate

    02022HD

    Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off feat and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely...

    Plague at the Golden Gate
  • 1999
    MacArthur

    MacArthur

    MacArthur

    01999HD

    MacArthur is a 1999 television documentary film about Douglas MacArthur, a United States General of the Army. Produced by PBS for The American...

    MacArthur
  • 2003
    Bataan Rescue

    Bataan Rescue

    Bataan Rescue

    02003HD

    This is the story of a group of 514 prisoners of war from the Bataan Death March and how they were rescued near the end of the war. The reason this...

    Bataan Rescue
  • 2021
    American Oz

    American Oz

    American Oz

    82021HD

    Explore the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of one of the most beloved, enduring and classic American narratives. By 1900, when...

    American Oz
  • 2020
    Mr. Tornado

    Mr. Tornado

    Mr. Tornado

    72020HD

    Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita spent ten months studying The Super Outbreak of 1974, which was the most intense tornado outbreak on...

    Mr. Tornado
  • 2008
    Walt Whitman

    Walt Whitman

    Walt Whitman

    52008HD

    This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in...

    Walt Whitman
  • 2006
    Jesse James

    Jesse James

    Jesse James

    02006HD

    He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and...

    Jesse James
  • 2021
    Billy Graham

    Billy Graham

    Billy Graham

    72021HD

    Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, he built...

    Billy Graham
  • 2019
    The Feud

    The Feud

    The Feud

    02019HD

    The feud between the Hatfields and McCoys is perhaps the most famous family conflict in American history. As legend has it, two neighboring families...

    The Feud
  • 2019
    The Swamp

    The Swamp

    The Swamp

    02019HD

    The history of the Florida Everglades and the efforts to reclaim, control and preserve the vast area once viewed as a wasteland.

    The Swamp