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Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Air date: 02-06-2013 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2332168287/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false 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... /episodes/get/6825 /episode/6825 American Experience: Silicon Valley /episode-player/6825
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
Air date: 01-30-2013 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2329934360/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false 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. /episodes/get/6815 /episode/6815 American Experience: Henry Ford /episode-player/6815
The Abolitionists
The Abolitionists
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 /episode/6641 American Experience: The Abolitionists /episode-player/6641
Death and the Civil War
Death and the Civil War
Air date: 09-19-2012 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2280706814/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false How the young United States dealt with the unprecedented and overwhelming number of dead in the Civil War, premiering on PBS Sept 18, 8/7c. The Ric Burns film is based on the book "This Republic of Suffering" by Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust. /episodes/get/675 /episode/675 American Experience: Death and the Civil War /episode-player/675
Clinton
Clinton
Air date: 05-08-2012 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2195106954/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false The biography of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history, and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage. /episodes/get/673 /episode/673 American Experience: Clinton /episode-player/673
Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens
Air date: 05-01-2012 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2229413590/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false The most famous athlete of his time, his stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace and athleticism rallied crowds across the globe. But when the four-time Olympic gold medalist returned... /episodes/get/685 /episode/685 American Experience: Jesse Owens /episode-player/685
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The Presidents: Truman
The Presidents: Truman
Of all the men who had held the office, he was the least prepared. As president, Harry Truman was responsible for dropping the atomic bomb on Japan, ending World War II and finding America's place in the international order at the start of the Cold War.
Air date: 12/30/2008
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http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/979647605/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Of all the men who had held the office, he was the least prepared. As president, Harry Truman was responsible for dropping the atomic bomb on Japan, ending World War II and finding America's place in the international order at the start of the Cold War. /episodes/get/709 /episode/709 American Experience: The Presidents: Truman /episode-player/709
The Presidents: George H.W. Bush
The Presidents: George H.W. Bush
This biography examines the life and career of our 41st president, from his service in World War II to his days in the Oval Office with the fall of the Berlin Wall, race riots in LA and the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Air date: 12/31/2008
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http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/979907571/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false This biography examines the life and career of our 41st president, from his service in World War II to his days in the Oval Office with the fall of the Berlin Wall, race riots in LA and the breakup of the Soviet Union. /episodes/get/704 /episode/704 American Experience: The Presidents: George H.W. Bush /episode-player/704
Wyatt Earp
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
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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 /episode/715 American Experience: Wyatt Earp /episode-player/715
We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee, Pt. 5 of 5
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
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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
The Kennedys
The Kennedys
A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and personal tragedy. From Joseph Kennedy's rise on Wall Street, through John, Robert and Edward's successes and scandals, the family has left a storied political legacy.
Air date: 05/15/2009
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http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1125268583/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and personal tragedy. From Joseph Kennedy's rise on Wall Street, through John, Robert and Edward's successes and scandals, the family has left a storied political legacy. /episodes/get/701 /episode/701 American Experience: The Kennedys /episode-player/701
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