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American Experience, The Codebreaker
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directed by Chana Gazit, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Chana Gazit, fl. 1988-2017 and Hilary Klotz Steinman, fl. 2005, WGBH Boston, in American Experience (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2021), 53 mins
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Codebreaker tells the story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a groundbreaking cryptanalyst who helped develop the codebreaking methods that led to the creation of the powerful new science of cryptology.
directed by Chana Gazit, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Chana Gazit, fl. 1988-2017 and Hilary Klotz Steinman, fl. 2005, WGBH Boston, in American Experience (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2021), 53 mins
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American Experience, The Busing Battleground
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directed by Cyndee Readdean, fl. 2004 and Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997; produced by Cyndee Readdean, fl. 2004 and Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997, American Experience Films and GBH Boston, in American Experience (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2023), 1 hour 53 mins
On September 12, 1974, police were stationed outside Boston schools as Black and white students were bused for the first time to comply with a federal court desegregation order. Shocking violence, directed mostly at children, ensued. The Busing Battleground illuminates the volatile effort to end school segregation...
directed by Cyndee Readdean, fl. 2004 and Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997; produced by Cyndee Readdean, fl. 2004 and Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997, American Experience Films and GBH Boston, in American Experience (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2023), 1 hour 53 mins
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American Experience, Episode 1, The Lie Detector
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directed by Rob Rapley, fl. 1994-2009; produced by Rob Rapley, fl. 1994-2009 and Emily Harrold, fl. 2012, in American Experience, Episode 1 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2023), 53 mins
In the early 20th century, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they could tell whether someone was lying by using a machine. Popularly known as the “lie detector,” the device was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool. Instead, the lie detector became an apparatus of fear and intimidation. The Lie D...
directed by Rob Rapley, fl. 1994-2009; produced by Rob Rapley, fl. 1994-2009 and Emily Harrold, fl. 2012, in American Experience, Episode 1 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2023), 53 mins
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American Experience, Episode 2, Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
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directed by Tracy Heather Strain, fl. 1991; produced by Tracy Heather Strain, fl. 1991 and Randall MacLowry, 1963-, in American Experience, Episode 2 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2023), 1 hour 53 mins
Zora Neale Hurston has long been considered a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, but her anthropological and ethnographic endeavors were equally important and impactful. This is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race,...
directed by Tracy Heather Strain, fl. 1991; produced by Tracy Heather Strain, fl. 1991 and Randall MacLowry, 1963-, in American Experience, Episode 2 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2023), 1 hour 53 mins
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American Experience, Episode 3, Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
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directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017 and Amanda Pollack, in American Experience, Episode 3 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2023), 53 mins
For generations, Monopoly has been America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and--for better or worse--the impulses that make our free-market society tick. But behind the myth of the game’s creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing. Ruthless: Monopol...
directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017 and Amanda Pollack, in American Experience, Episode 3 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2023), 53 mins
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American Experience, Episode 6, Grand Coulee Dam
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directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Susan Bellows, fl. 1989 and Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017, in American Experience, Episode 6 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2012), 1 hour 23 mins
At once this is a story of an astonishing engineering achievement, and a cautionary tale about arrogance, our relationship to the natural world, and the price of progress.
directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Susan Bellows, fl. 1989 and Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017, in American Experience, Episode 6 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2012), 1 hour 23 mins
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American Experience, Episode 6, Casa Susanna
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directed by Sébastien Lifshitz, 1968-; produced by Susan Bellows, fl. 1989 and Muriel Meynard, fl. 2002, in American Experience, Episode 6 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2022), 1 hour 37 mins
In the 1950s and '60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves. Told through the memories of those who visited, the film looks back at a secret...
directed by Sébastien Lifshitz, 1968-; produced by Susan Bellows, fl. 1989 and Muriel Meynard, fl. 2002, in American Experience, Episode 6 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2022), 1 hour 37 mins
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American Experience, Season 22, Episode 7, Roads to Memphis
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directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017, in American Experience, Season 22, Episode 7 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2019), 53 mins
The wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017, in American Experience, Season 22, Episode 7 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2019), 53 mins
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American Experience, Season 23, Episode 8, Triangle Fire
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directed by Jamila Wignot, fl. 2009-2014; produced by Jamila Wignot, fl. 2009-2014, Apograph Productions, in American Experience, Season 23, Episode 8 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2011), 54 mins
The Triangle Fire chronicles the fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and forever changed the relationship between labor and industry in the United States. A relationship that is still in question today as Americans re-examine the b...
directed by Jamila Wignot, fl. 2009-2014; produced by Jamila Wignot, fl. 2009-2014, Apograph Productions, in American Experience, Season 23, Episode 8 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2011), 54 mins
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American Experience, Season 25, Episode 6, War of the Worlds
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written by H. G. Wells, 1866-1946; directed by Cathleen O'Connell, fl. 2012; produced by Cathleen O'Connell, fl. 2012, WGBH Educational Foundation and Desert Penguin Pictures, in American Experience, Season 25, Episode 6 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2013), 53 mins
On Halloween Eve, 1938, a news bulletin reported that Martians had landed in a tiny New Jersey town. Although most listeners understood that the program was a radio drama, thousands of others plunged into panic, convinced that America was under a deadly attack. War of the Worlds explores how Orson Welles’ ingeni...
written by H. G. Wells, 1866-1946; directed by Cathleen O'Connell, fl. 2012; produced by Cathleen O'Connell, fl. 2012, WGBH Educational Foundation and Desert Penguin Pictures, in American Experience, Season 25, Episode 6 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2013), 53 mins
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