American Experience, originally titled The American Experience, is an American television program and a PBS documentary series created by Peter McGhee.[1] 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-commercial educational programs and distributes them on public television stations throughout the United States. However, other PBS affiliate stations, such as WNET in New York City, have co-produced episodes for the television series. Since the program's debut on October 4, 1988, American Experience has broadcast 367 new episodes and has been a recipient of over 265 broadcast and web awards.[2][3][4]
^The film episode Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream is sometimes listed in news reports as Eric Sevareid: Not So Wild a Dream or as Eric Sevareid's "Not So Wild a Dream".
^"American Experience - Broadcast Awards". PBS. WGBH Educational Foundation. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
^"American Experience - Web Awards". PBS. WGBH Educational Foundation. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
^"American Experience | The Great San Francisco Earthquake". PBS. Archived from the original on December 25, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Radio Bikini". PBS. Archived from the original on December 1, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo". PBS. Archived from the original on May 30, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream". PBS. Archived from the original on May 30, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter". PBS. Archived from the original on June 17, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?". PBS. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
^"American Experience | Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close". PBS. Archived from the original on February 22, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Geronimo and the Apache Resistance". PBS. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited". PBS. Archived from the original on June 3, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | That Rhythm, Those Blues". PBS. Archived from the original on November 26, 2015. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Radio Priest". PBS. Archived from the original on May 30, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Hearts and Hands". PBS. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Views of a Vanishing Frontier". PBS. Archived from the original on July 8, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings". PBS. Archived from the original on February 22, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The World That Moses Built". PBS. Archived from the original on June 8, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Sins of Our Mothers". PBS. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Great Air Race of 1924". PBS. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Demon Rum". PBS. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | A Family Gathering". PBS. Archived from the original on May 28, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Great War: 1918". PBS. Archived from the original on March 18, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Forever Baseball". PBS. Archived from the original on May 28, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Mr. Sears' Catalogue". PBS. Archived from the original on June 14, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven". PBS. Archived from the original on July 2, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Adam Clayton Powell". PBS. Archived from the original on May 22, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Journey to America". PBS. Archived from the original on November 24, 2015. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Ballad of a Mountain Man". PBS. Archived from the original on August 22, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice". PBS. Archived from the original on November 13, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Orphans of the Storm". PBS. Archived from the original on August 19, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Forbidden City, USA". PBS. Archived from the original on May 14, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Battle for Wilderness". PBS. Archived from the original on June 27, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad". PBS. Archived from the original on August 22, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Lindbergh". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^"American Experience | Nixon". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | God Bless America and Poland, Too". PBS. Archived from the original on May 22, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Insanity on Trial". PBS. Archived from the original on February 22, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Satellite Sky". PBS. Archived from the original on June 14, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Crash of 1929". PBS. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
^"American Experience | The Iron Road". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^"American Experience | French Dance Tonight". PBS. Archived from the original on November 25, 2015. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
^"American Experience | Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil". PBS. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | After the Crash". PBS. Archived from the original on February 22, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
^"American Experience | Los Mineros". PBS. Archived from the original on May 30, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Coney Island". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | LBJ". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry". PBS. Archived from the original on July 29, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Scandalous Mayor". PBS. Archived from the original on July 2, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Johnstown Flood". PBS. Archived from the original on December 25, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance". PBS. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | G–Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover". PBS. Archived from the original on September 23, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo". PBS. Archived from the original on April 26, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Quiz Show Scandal". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^"American Experience | Love in the Cold War". PBS. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Wild by Law". PBS. Archived from the original on December 25, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Barnum's Big Top". PBS. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | In the White Man's Image". PBS. Archived from the original on June 28, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Kennedys". PBS. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
^"American Experience | The Donner Party". PBS. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
^"Alphabetical | Films: L". PBS. American Experience. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
^O'Connor, John J. (November 11, 1992). "Review/Television; America's Black Army And a Dual War Front". The New York Times. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
^Scott, Tony (November 10, 1992). "Review: 'The American Experience Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II'". Variety. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
^"WNET Calls WWII Documentary 'Flawed' : Television: The Station Says 'Liberators,' Which Credited Black Battalions for Freeing Nazi Death Camps, Had Factual Errors. The Makers Reject the Findings". Los Angeles Times. September 9, 1993. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
^Bernstein, Richard (March 1, 1993). "Doubts Mar PBS Film of Black Army Unit". The New York Times. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
^"American Experience | George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King". PBS. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Last Stand at Little Big Horn". PBS. Archived from the original on December 1, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | If You Knew Sousa". PBS. Archived from the original on October 8, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Simple Justice". PBS. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish". PBS. Archived from the original on June 5, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Sit Down and Fight". PBS. Archived from the original on March 4, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Rachel Carson's Silent Spring". PBS. Archived from the original on March 3, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Goin' Back to T–Town". PBS. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
^"American Experience | Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Hunt for Pancho Villa". PBS. Archived from the original on February 22, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Eisehower". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Hurricane of '38". PBS. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
^"American Experience | Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian". PBS. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Malcolm X: Make It Plain". PBS. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
^"American Experience | America and the Holocaust". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | D-Day". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | FDR". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Telegrams from the Dead". PBS. Archived from the original on November 25, 2015. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Midnight Ramble". PBS. Archived from the original on June 8, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Battle of the Bulge". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | One Woman, One Vote". PBS. Archived from the original on June 22, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Way West". PBS. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Murder of the Century". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^"American Experience | Edison's Miracle of Light". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | Chicago 1968". PBS. Archived from the original on May 30, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Orphan Trains". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^"American Experience | Freedom on My Mind". PBS. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Daley: The Last Boss". PBS. Archived from the original on July 29, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Battle Over Citizen Kane". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^"American Experience | The Wright Stuff". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | Spy in the Sky". PBS. Archived from the original on August 8, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie". PBS. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
^"American Experience | Hawaii's Last Queen". PBS. Archived from the original on March 1, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | The Telephone". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | Big Dream, Small Screen". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^"American Experience | New York Underground". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^"American Experience | Troublesome Creek". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^"American Experience | Around the World in 72 Days". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | Gold Fever". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^"American Experience | Vietnam: A Television History". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^"American Experience | Truman". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | A Midwife's Tale". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | Mr. Miami Beach". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | Influenza 1918". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Reagan". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Surviving the Dust Bowl". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Riding the Rails". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | America 1900". PBS. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
^"American Experience | Race for the Superbomb". PBS. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
^"American Experience | Hoover Dam". PBS. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
^"American Experience | Alone on the Ice". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | Rescue at Sea". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^"American Experience | Meltdown at Three Mile Island". PBS. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
^"American Experience | Lost in the Grand Canyon". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | MacArthur". PBS. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
^"American Experience | Fly Girls". PBS. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
^ a b"American Experience | New York: A Documentary Film". PBS. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
^"American Experience | Eleanor Roosevelt". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Houdini". PBS. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
^"American Experience | Nixon's China Game". PBS. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
^"American Experience | The Duel". PBS. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
^"American Experience | John Brown's Holy War". PBS. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
^"American Experience | George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory". PBS. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
^"American Experience | Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life". PBS. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
^"American Experience | The Wizard of Photography". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | The Rockefellers". PBS. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
^"American Experience | Secrets of a Master Builder". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | Return with Honor". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | Streamliners: America's Lost Trains". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | Marcus Garvey: Look For Me In the Whirlwind". PBS. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
^"American Experience | Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | Scottsboro: An American Tragedy". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Fatal Flood". PBS. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
^"American Experience | Stephen Foster". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^"American Experience | War Letters". PBS. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
^"American Experience | Woodrow Wilson". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
^"American Experience | Mount Rushmore". PBS. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
^"American Experience | Miss America". PBS. Retrieved September 22, 2019.