American Experience, TVs most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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Revisit the heyday of America’s traveling circus and meet the showmen who created it.
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Explore the early days of this popular, influential and distinctly American entertainment.
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The fateful narrative of James Earl Ray who shot Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968.
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The mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in the nation’s financial center that left 38 dead.
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Story of a Wall Street tycoon who helped alter course of history in World War II.
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Fall 1967, student protest against the Vietnam war spiraled out control in Wisconsin.
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The United States Air Force brought men up 19 miles, testing the limits of human endurance