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Hoover Dam's electrical output helped build the ships and planes used in World War II; its water grew fruits and vegetables in California. It tamed a wild river and, for a time, renewed faith in American ingenuity and technology.

Air date: 11/10/2009 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1309911294/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Hoover Dam's electrical output helped build the ships and planes used in World War II; its water grew fruits and vegetables in California. It tamed a wild river and, for a time, renewed faith in American ingenuity and technology. /episodes/get/681 /episode/681 American Experience: Hoover Dam /episode-player/681

The Great Famine

The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Half a world away, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief...

Air date: 04/11/2011 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1853678422/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Half a world away, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief... /episodes/get/698 /episode/698 American Experience: The Great Famine /episode-player/698

We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee, Pt. 5 of 5

On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled into the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Within hours, some 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement activists had seized the few major buildings in town. The occupation of Wounded Knee had begun. Demanding redress for grievances--some...

Air date: 05/12/2009 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1120420245/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled into the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Within hours, some 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement activists had seized the few major buildings in town. The occupation of Wounded Knee had begun. Demanding redress for grievances--some... /episodes/get/714 /episode/714 American Experience: We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee, Pt. 5 of 5 /episode-player/714

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 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1378322117/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false 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. /episodes/get/682 /episode/682 American Experience: Influenza 1918 /episode-player/682

The Greely Expedition

An epic story of adventure, abandonment and human tragedy, The Greely Expedition tells of an 1881 scientific mission to the Arctic that ended with death and rumors of cannibalism.

Air date: 01/31/2011 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1773964253/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false An epic story of adventure, abandonment and human tragedy, The Greely Expedition tells of an 1881 scientific mission to the Arctic that ended with death and rumors of cannibalism. /episodes/get/699 /episode/699 American Experience: The Greely Expedition /episode-player/699

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The Greely Expedition

An epic story of adventure, abandonment and human tragedy, The Greely Expedition tells of an 1881 scientific mission to the Arctic that ended with death and rumors of cannibalism.

Air date: 01/31/2011 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1773964253/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false An epic story of adventure, abandonment and human tragedy, The Greely Expedition tells of an 1881 scientific mission to the Arctic that ended with death and rumors of cannibalism. /episodes/get/699 http://www.wgby.org/episode/699 American Experience: The Greely Expedition /episode-player/699

Wyatt Earp

Celebrated as a man who took control of his own destiny, Wyatt Earp came to epitomize the town-taming marshal responsible for bringing the forces of law, order and civilization to the Wild West.

Air date: 01/26/2009 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1390089466/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Celebrated as a man who took control of his own destiny, Wyatt Earp came to epitomize the town-taming marshal responsible for bringing the forces of law, order and civilization to the Wild West. /episodes/get/715 http://www.wgby.org/episode/715 American Experience: Wyatt Earp /episode-player/715

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World

The history of the American whaling industry from its 17th-century origins in drift-and-shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.

Air date: 03/20/2012 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1485863181/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false The history of the American whaling industry from its 17th-century origins in drift-and-shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War. /episodes/get/683 http://www.wgby.org/episode/683 American Experience: Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World /episode-player/683

The Hurricane of '38

As the storm made its way across the Atlantic and up the eastern seaboard, there was little warning. Radar had not been invented. The National Weather Bureau predicted it would blow itself out at North Carolina, but it didn't. No one had ever seen a storm like this.

Air date: 05/17/2010 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1497381366/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false As the storm made its way across the Atlantic and up the eastern seaboard, there was little warning. Radar had not been invented. The National Weather Bureau predicted it would blow itself out at North Carolina, but it didn't. No one had ever seen a storm like this. /episodes/get/700 http://www.wgby.org/episode/700 American Experience: The Hurricane of '38 /episode-player/700

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 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2323777396/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false 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. /episodes/get/6641 http://www.wgby.org/episode/6641 American Experience: The Abolitionists /episode-player/6641

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