American Experience Movies
- 2017
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City6.8332017HD
The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. This...
- 2016
The Trans List
The Trans List6.12016HD
A documentary that explores the range of experiences lived by transgender Americans.
- 2004
The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
The Rise & Fall of Penn Station9.52004HD
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East...
- 2021
The Codebreaker
The Codebreaker72021HD
Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who helped bring down gangsters and break up a Nazi spy...
- 1992
The Donner Party
The Donner Party6.451992HD
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival. The Donner Party's nightmarish journey...
- 2018
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age62018HD
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...
- 2015
The Pilgrims
The Pilgrims7.72015HD
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th...
- 2016
Fats Domino and The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Fats Domino and The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll22016HD
One of the most popular rockers of the 1950s and early 60s, Fats Domino and his record sales were rivaled then only by Elvis Presley. With his...
- 2016
Murder of a President
Murder of a President7.62016HD
The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassination.
- 1988
Radio Bikini
Radio Bikini7.31988HD
It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. Shows great footage from these...
- 1994
Tupperware!
Tupperware!01994HD
The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught sales-woman who built...
- 2009
The Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps102009HD
American Experience celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Founded by Roosevelt during the Great Depression, the CCC put...
- 2020
Transhood
Transhood5.32020HD
Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 – as they...
- 2001
Fatal Flood
Fatal Flood02001HD
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, inundating...
- 1990
The Crash of 1929
The Crash of 192901990HD
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there...
- 2024
Nazi Town, USA
Nazi Town, USA8.6672024HD
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally.” Images of George...
- 1988
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
The Great San Francisco Earthquake01988HD
An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.
- 2022
Casa Susanna
Casa Susanna7.8752022HD
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first...
- 2015
The Forgotten Plague
The Forgotten Plague6.52015HD
Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits,...
- 2014
Cold War Roadshow
Cold War Roadshow02014HD
Cold War Roadshow tells the story of one of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of modern history — the unprecedented barnstorming across...