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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 Crash of 1929
The Crash of 1929
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich.
Air date: 10/26/2009
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http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1308436568/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich. /episodes/get/696 /episode/696 American Experience: The Crash of 1929 /episode-player/696
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam
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
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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
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Surviving the Dust Bowl
The story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease and even death for nearly a decade.
Air date: 11/16/2009
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http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1311363860/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false The story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease and even death for nearly a decade. /episodes/get/692 /episode/692 American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl /episode-player/692
Influenza 1918
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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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 Bombing of Germany
The Bombing of Germany
In World War II British and American Allied forces carried out a bombing campaign of unprecedented might over Germany's cities, claiming the lives of nearly half a million civilians.
Air date: 02/05/2010
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http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1405744809/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false In World War II British and American Allied forces carried out a bombing campaign of unprecedented might over Germany's cities, claiming the lives of nearly half a million civilians. /episodes/get/694 /episode/694 American Experience: The Bombing of Germany /episode-player/694
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