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Episodes

  • Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act

    S37 Ep2 |
    The dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990.
  • The Poisoner's Handbook: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    The Poisoner's Handbook

    S26 Ep1 |
    In the early 1900s, the average medicine cabinet was a would-be poisoner's treasure chest.
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    JFK

    S25 Ep8 |
    The life of President John F. Kennedy, one of our most popular and most mourned leaders.
  • War of the Worlds: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    War of the Worlds

    S25 Ep6 |
    How Orson Welles' genius use of the new medium of radio struck fear into an anxious nation
  • Silicon Valley: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Silicon Valley

    S25 Ep3 |
    Robert Noyce's invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.
  • Henry Ford: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Henry Ford

    S25 Ep2 |
    He rose from obscurity to become the 20th century's most influential American innovator.
  • The Abolitionists: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    The Abolitionists

    S25 Ep12 |
    To create a more perfect union, they tore the nation apart.
  • Roberto Clemente: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Roberto Clemente

    S20 Ep7 |
    The exceptional life and career of Puerto Rican baseball star Roberto Clemente.
  • Death and the Civil War: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Death and the Civil War

    S28 Ep9 |
    How the US dealt with the unprecedented number of dead in the Civil War.

Specials

  • Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act [ASL]: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act [ASL]

    The dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990.

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American Experience, TV's most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

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