PBS American Experience Popular Movie

Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Oliver Platt

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power after a stunning victory in an election no one...

Genre: Documentary

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In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Oliver Platt

Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita spent ten months studying The Super Outbreak of 1974, which was the most intense tornado outbreak on...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joe Morton

Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off feat and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lea Salonga

The story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley who, determined to banish dangerous substances from dinner tables, took on the powerful food...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Corey Stoll

Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, he built...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Billy Graham

Explore the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of one of the most beloved, enduring and classic American narratives. By 1900, when...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joanna Rhinehart

This is the story of a group of 514 prisoners of war from the Bataan Death March and how they were rescued near the end of the war. The reason this...

Genre: History

Cast: Scott Glenn

Based on David Maraniss's book They Marched into Sunlight, a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Michael Hagiwara

This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: J.K. Simmons

MacArthur is a 1999 television documentary film about Douglas MacArthur, a United States General of the Army. Produced by PBS for The American...

Genre: History

Cast: David Ogden Stiers

The feud between the Hatfields and McCoys is perhaps the most famous family conflict in American history. As legend has it, two neighboring families...

Genre: History

Cast: Michael Murphy

The history of the Florida Everglades and the efforts to reclaim, control and preserve the vast area once viewed as a wasteland.

Genre: Documentary

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In the predawn hours of March 28, 1979, a reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, began to overheat. The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liev Schreiber

He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and...

Genre: History

Cast: Michael Murphy

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India's famine problem but would go on to lead a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norman Borlaug