WGBH Program: American Experience

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American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl

American Experience: The 1930s

American Experience: The Crash of 1929

American Experience: The Kennedys

Schedule

Seabiscuit
Monday Nov 23 at 9:00 PM
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Seabiscuit
Monday Nov 23 at 9:00 PM
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Seabiscuit
Tuesday Nov 24 at 1:00 AM
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Seabiscuit
Tuesday Nov 24 at 2:00 AM
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Seabiscuit
Tuesday Nov 24 at 2:00 AM
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Seabiscuit
Tuesday Nov 24 at 4:00 AM
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American Experience

"As we navigate through our current global recession, the likes of which we haven’t seen in more than 75 years, Americans can look to the ’30s to help understand how we got here and where we may end up next."

-Mark Samels, executive producer for American Experience

The 1930s

American Experience premieres The 1930s, a five-part miniseries that examines America’s response to the economic crisis, high unemployment, and environmental catastrophe that threatened the nation during the 1930s, one of history’s most tumultuous decades — and one that is a touchstone for our own.

Beginning with the stock market collapse in The Crash of 1929, the series looks at the creation of FDR’s Tree Army in Civilian Conservation Corps; the construction of one of the greatest engineering projects of the modern era in Hoover Dam; the impact of the drought that transformed the plains in Surviving the Dust Bowl; and an unlikely hero that gave downtrodden Americans hope in Seabiscuit.

Watch American Experience online

The American Experience website premiered in 1995 and has won accolades from viewers and critics alike. To date, American Experience has produced more than 130 feature sites, which allow users to watch episodes online and encourage exploration beyond the television screen. The American Experience website has been recognized by online and print publications including Yahoo!, USA Today Online, Broadcasting & Cable, and TV Guide.