Tag: american experience

The Polio Crusade

The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with...

Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage

The Civilian Conservation Corps

American Experience celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation...

Tupperware!

The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but...

Grand Central

On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed...

The Wright Stuff

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur...

Truman

He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who...

New York Underground

In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of...

Reagan

In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left...

Influenza 1918

Influenza 1918 is the story of the worst epidemic the...

Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power

Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina...

Fatal Flood

In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains,...

American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union....

Ulysses S. Grant

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union....