American Experience - Season 24

Season 24

Episodes

Billy the Kid

Custer's Last Stand

Clinton: The Comeback Kid
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.

Clinton: The Survivor
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.

The Amish
Find answers to questions Americans have about this insistently insular religious community.

Grand Coulee Dam
Learn how the tension between technological achievement and environmental impact hangs over the legacy of Grand Coulee Dam.

Jesse Owens
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 home, he could not even ride in the front of a bus. The story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world champion, Jesse Owens is also about the elusive, fleeting quality of fame and the way Americans idolize athletes when they suit our purpose and forget them once they don't.

Death and the Civil War
Chart the political and social changes wrought by the pervasiveness and fear of death during the Civil War.
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