American Experience - Season 19
Season 19
Episodes
Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings
Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back
Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails
Eyes on the Prize: No Easy Walk
Eyes on the Prize: Is This America?
Eyes on the Prize: Bridge to Freedom
Test Tube Babies
Test Tube Babies tells the story of doctors, researchers, and hopeful couples who pushed the limits of science and triggered a technological revolution in human reproduction. In so doing, they landed at the center of a controversy whose reverberations continue to this day.
The Great Fever
The Gold Rush
The Berlin Airlift
The Living Weapon
New Orleans
Sister Aimee
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Summer of Love
Summer of Love is a striking picture of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district during the summer of 1967 — from the utopian beginnings, when peace and love prevailed, to the chaos, unsanitary conditions, and widespread drug use that ultimately signaled the end.
In January 1967, the thousands of youth already in San Francisco descended on Golden Gate Park for a Human Be-In. The media flocked to the event, putting hippies in the national spotlight for the first time. And once the press offered a window into the world of Haight-Ashbury, even more young people flooded in. "The city of San Francisco has been warned of a hippie invasion come summer in numbers almost too staggering to comprehend," declared one TV news reporter.
The Summer of Love was a fleeting moment in the turbulent history of the 1960s. But its underlying message left an indelible impression on those who witnessed it.
The Mormons: History
The Mormons: Church and State
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