American Experience celebra el 75 aniversario del Cuerpo de Conservación Civil. Fundado por Roosevelt durante la Gran Depresión, el CCC empleó a más de 3 millones de hombres para mejorar la infraestructura del país y los parques nacionales.

Wyatt Earp has been portrayed in countless movies and television shows but these popular fictions belie the complexities and flaws of a man whose life is a lens on politics, justice and economic opportunity on the American frontier. He was a caricature of the Western lawman, and after his death in 1929, distressed Americans transformed him into a folk hero: a central figure in how the west was won, a man who took control of his own destiny.

On September 1, 1939 the first day of World War II in Europe President Franklin D. Roosevelt appealed to the warring nations to under no circumstances undertake the bombardment from the air of civilian populations. Just six years later, British and American Allied forces had carried out a bombing campaign of unprecedented might over Germany s cities, claiming the lives of nearly half a million civilians. The Bombing of Germany examines the defining moments of the offensive that led the U.S. across a moral divide. Weaving together interviews with WWII pilots and historians, and stunning archival footage of the bombing and its aftermath, this AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film is a haunting reminder of the dilemma imposed by war's civilian casualties.

Dolley Madison lived through the two wars that established the U.S., was friends with the first 12 Presidents, and watched America evolve from a struggling young republic to the first modern democracy in the world.

Director Robert Stone traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its beginnings in the 1950s.

American Experience investiga la masacre de My Lai, una atrocidad durante la Guerra de Vietnam que mató a más de 300 civiles desarmados.

Esta película cuenta la historia de un asesino, James Earl Ray, su objetivo, el Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., y las fuerzas tumultuosas y latentes en la sociedad estadounidense que llevaron a estos dos hombres a su violenta y trágica colisión en Memphis en abril de 1968.

La experiencia estadounidense examina la historia de la caza de ballenas en Estados Unidos, desde sus orígenes en alta mar en el siglo XVII hasta la época dorada de la caza de ballenas en aguas profundas y su posterior declive en las décadas posteriores a la Guerra Civil.