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Season 36 / Episode 17 and airs on May 21, 2025 01:00
American Experience is TV's most-watched history series and brings to life incredible characters and compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today. Acclaimed by viewers and critics alike, American Experience documentaries have been honored with every major broadcast award, including 30 Emmy Awards, 4 duPont-Columbia Awards, and 18 George Foster Peabody Awards.
The nation is fascinated by the high-profile murder of a famous architect, apparently because of jealousy over a popular female stage performer.
Inventor Thomas A. Edison experiments with electricity, long-burning filaments, and glass bulbs to give America an alternative to gas lights.
The story of orphaned inner-city children shipped to rural locations and new lives as part of a social engineering experiment.
Biography of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, considered one of the last major heads of big city "machine" politics in the United States.
Orson Welles' movie stirs the ire of publisher William Randolph Hearst, the man who the film was patterned after.
The story of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the earliest days of aviation.
The Cold War forces the United States to build very high altitude U2 planes to record photographs of opposing nations.
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