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American Experience

Season 7

1994 • 13 Episodes

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FDR (1): The Center of the World (1882-1921)

S07 E01 • Wednesday, Oct 12, 1994 • Oct 12 • 55m

Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who steered the United States through two monumental crises: the Depression and World War II. FDR served as president longer than any other, and his legacy still shapes our understanding of the role of government and the presidency. A film by award winning filmmaker David Grubin. This first episode looks at the early life of FDR. Born into a wealthy family, there was little about his youth that would suggest the giant of history that he would become. His entry into state politics and a significant meeting with a woman named Eleanor would change his life and the course of a nation.

FDR (2): Fear Itself (1922-1933)

S07 E02 • Monday, Oct 12, 1992 • Oct 12 • 55m

In this second episode, the subject is FDR's courageous fight with polio. With his wife Eleanor Roosevelt at his side, FDR, wins the Democratic nomination for president. He takes office at the beginning of the Great Depression. Exhorting the nation to keep the faith, FDR utters his famous words: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

FDR (3): The Grandest Job in the World (1933-1940)

S07 E03 • Thursday, Oct 13, 1994 • Oct 13 • 55m

In episode 3, the subject is FDR's leadership of America during the Great Depression. The nation turned to this son of great wealth for a host of social programs that promised a New Deal for the common man.

FDR (4): The Juggler (1940-1945)

S07 E04 • Thursday, Oct 13, 1994 • Oct 13 • 55m

The portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt concludes with his years as preside (1932 until his death in 1945), how he dealt with the Great Depression, and his link with Winston Churchill during World War II.

Telegrams from the Dead

S07 E05 • Wednesday, Oct 19, 1994 • Oct 19 • 55m

For 40 years, a new religion called spiritualism affected the nation as no other ever had. Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum, Frederick Douglass, senators, and scientists argued over the discoveries of the spirit world as revealed through mediums. Congress debated whether to provide $40,000 to research the feasibility of using the new wireless technology to reach the other world. But by 1880, as one spectacular fraud after another was revealed, the movement began to fade.

Midnight Ramble

S07 E06 • Wednesday, Oct 26, 1994 • Oct 26 • 55m

The little-known story of a black independent film industry that thrived outside of Hollywood and produced close to 500 feature movies for African American audiences between 1910 and 1940. Many race movies tackled some of the difficult social issues that confronted black urban society: alcoholism, crime, morality, class conflict, even racism and lynching, setting the stage for today's independent black cinema movement.

Battle of the Bulge

S07 E07 • Wednesday, Nov 9, 1994 • Nov 9 • 55m

The history of World War II's "Battle of the Bulge", when the German army launched a major surprise counteroffensive against the American forces that caught them almost completely off-guard, sweeping away major portions of the front line, pushing deep into the rear areas and causing tens of thousands of casualties before it was finally halted.

One Woman, One Vote (1)

S07 E10 • Monday, Jan 23, 1995 • Jan 23 • 55m

From Elizabeth Cady Stanton's electrifying call to arms at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the last battle for passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, a recounting of the infighting, the alliances and betrayals, defeats and victories on the way to winning the right to vote. The struggle split the suffragist movement into two opposing forces: the militants who faced imprisonment and riots and those who argued for a quieter, more persuasive ways. Both tactics, it turned out, were needed.

One Woman, One Vote (2)

S07 E11 • Monday, Jan 30, 1995 • Jan 30 • 55m

The Way West (1): Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1845-1864)

S07 E12 • Monday, May 8, 1995 • May 8 • 55m

A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West was settled, subdued, exploited and incorporated into the American empire. Lakotas, Cheyennes, Kiowas, Poncas, Apaches, Nez Perces and Utes fought back, then watched as everything they had was taken from them, their way of life all but destroyed.

The Way West (2): The Approach of Civilization (1865-1869)

S07 E13 • Tuesday, May 9, 1995 • May 9 • 55m

The Way West (3): The War for the Black Hills (1870-1876)

S07 E14 • Tuesday, May 16, 1995 • May 16 • 55m

The Way West (4): Ghost Dance (1877-1893)

S07 E15 • Wednesday, May 17, 1995 • May 17 • 55m

American Experience

Season 7

1994 • 13 Episodes

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