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Movies (15)
The Golden Realm: An American Larping Experience
Dylan and Toby are live action role-players who never break from their characters and have an intense rivalry. After one battle ends with the "death" of a loved one, they prepare f...
American Experience: Reagan: Part II
Part II of PBS' American Experience: Reagan
Exclusion: The Shared American Experience
An eye-opening experience. Must see film! Getting an understanding of the long history of Americans is so insightful from this point of view. Very important film to watch and learn...
American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation. As a former president, he was the embodiment of the v...
Becoming American, the Chinese Experience: Between Two Worlds
Between Two Worlds is part two of BECOMING AMERICAN: The Chinese Experience. The 1882 Exclusion Act prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country and becoming citizens. It ...
Becoming American, the Chinese Experience: No Turning Back
No Turning Back is part three of BECOMING AMERICAN: The Chinese Experience. World War II ushered in the beginning of major changes for the Chinese in America. At war with Japan, Ch...
Becoming American, the Chinese Experience: Gold Mountain Dreams
Gold Mountain Dreams is part one of BECOMING AMERICAN: The Chinese Experience. In the 1840s, civil war and famine in southern China drove thousands of young men to seek their fortu...
Masters of Modern Design: The Art of the Japanese American Experience
From the hand-drawn typeface on the book cover of The Godfather to Herman Miller’s biomorphic coffee table, the work of Japanese American artists/designers including Ruth Asawa, Ge...
Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience
This documentary contrasts the issues faced by today's Native American people and covers the injustices that their people had faced in the past.
After Silence: Civil Rights and the Japanese-American Experience
As a child, Dr. Frank Kitamoto and his family lived on Bainbridge Island, WA, where the U.S. government first ordered Japanese Americans to register, leave their homes, and then in...
The Black American Experience: Famous Activists: Paul Robeson & Richard Wright
Redefining race relations through public discourse made legends of the two men profiled here: multitalented performer, writer, athlete and civil rights activist Paul Robeson, and l...
Unseen Tears: The Native American Boarding School Experience in Western New York
Unseen Tears documents the effects of Native American boarding (residential) schools in western New York and Ontario. The documentary focuses on communites effected by the Thomas I...
America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience
Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day United States. Before Plymouth Rock and Jamestown, St. Augustine, FL had built a m...
Citizen King
Documentary about the final five, turbulent years in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King. The story begins at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963, when a 34-year-o...
Bataan Rescue
This is the story of a group of 514 prisoners of war from the Bataan Death March and how they were rescued near the end of the war. The reason this was so important is that the Jap...
TV Series (5)
American Experience
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
American Experience: LBJ
LBJ is a 1991 two-part television documentary film about Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. Produced by PBS for The American Experience documentary program...
American Experience: The Presidents
American presidents hold the most powerful office on earth and occupy a unique place at the center of national and world events. At once chief executive, head of state, commander-i...
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
What Does It Mean to Become an American? In every immigrant group, each generation finds a balance between the values and practices of its heritage, and the mores of its adopted co...
JFK
Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective appraisal. Recent assessments have revealed an administration long on promise and vigo...
