American Experience - Season 25

Season 25

Episodes

The Abolitionists: From Courage to Freedom

The Abolitionists: Before Brother Fought Brother

The Abolitionists: A House Dividing

Henry Ford

Silicon Valley

War of the Worlds
An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.

JFK: Part 1
JFK presents a fresh look at an enigmatic man who remains one of the nation's most beloved and mourned leaders, John F. Kennedy. It offers a new perspective on his private life, his relationship with his wife, his close connection to his brother, Robert, and his bond with his father. JFK also reevaluates his strengths and weaknesses in the Oval Office as he navigated some of the most explosive events of the mid-twentieth century.

JFK: Part 2
JFK presents a fresh look at an enigmatic man who remains one of the nation's most beloved and mourned leaders, John F. Kennedy. It offers a new perspective on his private life, his relationship with his wife, his close connection to his brother, Robert, and his bond with his father. JFK also reevaluates his strengths and weaknesses in the Oval Office as he navigated some of the most explosive events of the mid-twentieth century.
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