American Experience - Season 8

Season 8
Episodes

Murder of the Century
The nation is fascinated by the high-profile murder of a famous architect, apparently because of jealousy over a popular female stage performer.

Edison's Miracle of Light
Inventor Thomas A. Edison experiments with electricity, long-burning filaments, and glass bulbs to give America an alternative to gas lights.

Chicago 1968

The Orphan Trains
The story of orphaned inner-city children shipped to rural locations and new lives as part of a social engineering experiment.

Freedom on My Mind

Daley: The Last Boss
Biography of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, considered one of the last major heads of big city "machine" politics in the United States.

The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Orson Welles' movie stirs the ire of publisher William Randolph Hearst, the man who the film was patterned after.

The Wright Stuff
The story of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the earliest days of aviation.

Spy in the Sky
The Cold War forces the United States to build very high altitude U2 planes to record photographs of opposing nations.
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Murder in a Small Town
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work. But this gentle paradise has more than its share of secrets, and Karl will need to call upon all the skills that made him a world-class detective in solving the murders that, even in this seemingly idyllic setting, continue to wash up on his shore.

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Reacher
Reacher follows Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator who has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served. When Reacher arrives in the small town of Margrave, Georgia, he finds a community grappling with its first homicide in 20 years. The cops immediately arrest him and eyewitnesses claim to place Reacher at the scene of the crime. While he works to prove his innocence, a deep-seated conspiracy begins to emerge, one that will require Reacher's keen mind and hard-hitting fists to deal with. One thing above all is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.
