Mark Samels Trailers
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Mark Samels is an American documentary producer native of Wisconsin. He is executive producer of American Experience, PBS's longest-running history series.
Most Popular Mark Samels Trailers
Total trailers found: 26
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Trailer (2009)
09 February 2009
Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.
The Rise & Fall of Penn Station Trailer (2004)
18 February 2004
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States.
The Massie Affair Trailer (2005)
18 April 2005
In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against five nonwhite islanders.
Reagan Trailer (1998)
23 February 1998
In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of the most controversial.
Henry Ford Trailer (2013)
29 January 2013
HENRY FORD paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century.
The Great San Francisco Earthquake Trailer (1988)
04 October 1988
An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.
Surviving the Dust Bowl Trailer (1998)
02 March 1998
In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept across the Southern Plains — the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, western Kansas, and the eastern portions of Colorado and New Mexico.
George W. Bush Trailer (2020)
04 May 2020
This two-part, four-hour look at the life and presidency of George W. Bush features interviews with historians, journalists and several members of the president’s inner circle.
McCarthy Trailer (2020)
06 January 2020
"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power after a stunning victory in an election no one thought he could win.
Freedom Riders Trailer (2010)
01 February 2010
This is the story of more than four hundred Americans who participated in a bold and dangerous experiment designed to awaken the conscience of a complacent nation.
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer Trailer (2008)
24 March 2008
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that created the atomic bomb.
Grand Coulee Dam Trailer (2017)
18 April 2017
During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everything about it was described in superlatives.
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation Trailer (2019)
24 May 2019
50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point of view of those who were on the ground, evokes the freedom, passion, community, and joy the three-day music festival created.
Mr. Tornado Trailer (2020)
19 May 2020
Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita spent ten months studying The Super Outbreak of 1974, which was the most intense tornado outbreak on record.
Walt Whitman Trailer (2008)
14 April 2008
This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.
Oklahoma City Trailer (2017)
21 January 2017
The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history.
Bonnie & Clyde Trailer (2016)
19 January 2016
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow embark on a two-year crime spree during the Great Depression and become known as the most famous criminal couple in U.
A Brilliant Madness Trailer (2002)
28 May 2002
The life of the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and schizophrenic John Nash — the inspiration for the feature film A Beautiful Mind — is a powerful exploration of how genius and madness can become intertwined.
Miss America Trailer (2002)
27 January 2002
Tracking the country’s oldest beauty contest—from its inception in 1921 as a local seaside pageant to its heyday as one of the country’s most popular events—Miss America paints a vivid picture of an institution that has come to reveal much about a changing nation.
Nixon Trailer (1990)
15 October 1990
The enigmatic nature of the Nixon presidency combined comparatively progressive legislative initiatives with a flagrant abuse of presidential power and the public trust.
The Great War Trailer (2017)
10 April 2017
Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as “doughboys".
Billy the Kid Trailer (2012)
10 January 2012
A fascinating look at the myth and the man behind it, who, in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny orphan boy to the most feared man in the West and an enduring western icon.
The Gilded Age Trailer (2018)
06 February 2018
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation.
Tupperware! Trailer (2004)
09 February 2004
The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught sales-woman who built him an empire out of bowls that burped.
The Swamp Trailer (2019)
15 January 2019
The history of the Florida Everglades and the efforts to reclaim, control and preserve the vast area once viewed as a wasteland.
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind Trailer (2001)
18 January 2001
Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents to uncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant, who between 1916 and 1921 built the largest black mass movement in world history.
