American Experience - Dinosaur Wars
Dinosaur Wars
The story of two Americans who laid the foundation for modern paleontology and whose rivalry nearly destroyed them both.
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The Rockefellers
John D. Rockefeller was the world's first billionaire and the most hated man in America. Watch the epic story of the man who monopolized oil.
Broadcasting on many PBS stations February 12, 2013. Check your location listings.
Air date: 10/17/2000
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Silicon Valley
Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the...
Air date: 02/06/2013
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Henry Ford
The biography of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, this documentary of Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth of the American auto industry with its long history of struggles between labor and management.
Air date: 01/30/2013
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The Abolitionists
The story of how abolitionist allies William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.
Air date: 01/09/2013
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Influenza 1918
Influenza 1918 is the story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known. Before it was over, the flu would kill more than 600,000 Americans - more than all the combat deaths of this century combined.
Air date: 01/19/2010
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