Season 20
(2008)
Cast
Episodes
Oswald's Ghost 0.0
January 14, 2008
Few Americans then or now accept that a lone, inconsequential gunman could bring down a president and alter history. In…
The Lobotomist 9.0
January 21, 2008
In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely…
Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies 0.0
February 3, 2008
After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the civil rights movement: the insistent call for power. M…
Grand Central 0.0
February 4, 2008
A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd Street that forever ch…
Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land 0.0
February 10, 2008
The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes wins electi…
Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law? 0.0
February 17, 2008
A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize black America. World heavyweight champion Cassius Clay challenge…
Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement 0.0
February 24, 2008
In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. …
Kit Carson 0.0
February 18, 2008
An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native America…
Buffalo Bill 0.0
February 25, 2008
In 1886, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show played to over one million people in New York City. It was one of the most elabo…
Minik: The Lost Eskimo 0.0
March 31, 2009
In 1897, renowned Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to New York from his latest Greenland expedition. At the reques…
Walt Whitman 10.0
April 14, 2008
This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a…
Roberto Clemente 0.0
April 21, 2008
Roberto Clemente is an in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian who challenged racial…
George H.W. Bush (1) 0.0
May 5, 2008
When George. H.W. Bush left the Oval Office in 1992, rejected after one tumultuous presidential term, his 30-year caree…
George H.W. Bush (2) 0.0
May 6, 2008
George H.W. Bush presents the first in-depth assessment of the 41st president of the United States, drawing upon unpara…