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Discover the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America’s past and present. Television’s most-watched history series, acclaimed by viewers and critics alike, has been honored with every major broadcast award.

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Presents Encore Broadcasts of LBJ and Reagan, Two Biographies from the Peabody Award-winning Collection The Presidents Download

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Zoot Suit Riots Revisit 1940s L.A., when racial tensions between Mexican Americans and sailors led to violence.
  • AMEX1406

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LBJ

Revisit the president whose plans for a Great Society were undercut by the quagmire of Vietnam.

  • Original9/30/1991
  • AMEX401 & 402

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Goin’ Back to T-Town Goin’ Back to T-Town tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation.
  • Original3/1/1993
  • AMEX512

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Reagan

Recall the life of the president who saw himself as the defender of the “shining city on a hill.”

  • Original2/23/1998
  • AMEX1006 and 1007

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The Murder of Emmett Till

In August of 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till whistled at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman. His inadvertent violation of a sacred code of the South cost him his life.

  • Original1/20/2003
  • AMEX1506

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FREEDOM RIDERS

Find inspiration in the story of a courageous band of young civil-rights activists who journeyed through the Deep South in 1961.

  • Original5/16/2011
  • AMEXFRER (AMEX #2311)

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Freedom Summer

Relive 1964's Freedom Summer and the dramatic struggle for equality in Mississippi.

  • Original6/24/2014
  • AMEXFRSU

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Rachel Carson

Meet a scientist whose groundbreaking writings revolutionized our relationship to the natural world.

  • Original1/24/2017
  • AMEX2809

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The Codebreaker Meet Elizebeth Friedman, the pioneering cryptanalyst who took down Al Capone and a Nazi spy ring.
  • Original1/11/2021
  • AMEX3301

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Voice of Freedom Voice of Freedom interweaves Marian Anderson’s rich life story with this landmark moment in history, exploring fundamental questions about talent, race, fame, democracy, and the American soul.
  • Original1/15/2021
  • AMEX3302

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Sandra Day O’Connor: The First Discover the story of the Supreme Court’s first female justice. A pioneer who both reflected and shaped an era, she was the deciding vote in cases on some of the 20th century’s most controversial issues—including race, gender and reproductive rights.
  • Original9/13/2021
  • AMEX3306
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