American Experience
TV-PG
8.6
1988
Documentary
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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Episode 6 : War of the Worlds
October. 29,2013
A broadcast that struck fear into an already anxious nation, Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast was the most famous alien invasion that never happened.
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Episode 3 : The Abolitionists: 1854-Emancipation and Victory
January. 22,2013
Examine the forces leading to war and to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Episode 2 : The Abolitionists: 1838-1854
January. 15,2013
See how the activities of the five principals intersect and affect the anti-slavery movement.
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Episode 1 : The Abolitionists: 1820s-1838
January. 08,2013
The story of how abolitionist allies William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.
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