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American Experience, originally titled The American Experience, is an American television program and a PBS documentary series created by Peter McGhee. The series airs documentaries about significant historical events or figures in United States history. The show is produced primarily by WGBH-TV, a television station and PBS affiliate located in Boston, Massachusetts. WGBH-TV creates non ...
After a 51-day siege at the Davidians armed compound in Waco, Texas, the Federal Bureau of Investigation tries to end the standoff with tear gas, but a fire breaks out and engulfs the compound. By the end, 76 Davidians and 4 ATF agents die, including 22 children. This motivates Timothy McVeigh to retaliate by perpetrating the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Disasters of the Century is a documentary television series that airs on History Television.The program is produced by Regina, Saskatchewan-based Partners in Motion.. Each episode documents two different disasters from Canada and around the world, using a mixture of re-enactments, photographs, and interviews with survivors and family members of victims.
Ken Burns, the legendary documentarian has examined nearly every era of American history. We ranked all of his films, from Baseball to The Vietnam War.
In the U.S., from a population of 105 million, the flu claimed about 675,000 lives—almost 10 times more than the country's World War I fatalities—and it dramatically lowered life expectancy by ...
The bigger story became a documentary, “20 Days in Mariupol,” a joint project between The Associated Press and PBS “Frontline,” which premiered earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival ...
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America is a ten-hour, ten-part television miniseries that aired on the History Channel from April 9 through April 14, 2006. The material was later adapted and published as a book by the same title.
Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, won the best documentary Oscar on Sunday night. A ...