PBS American Experience Movie Trailers
Most Popular PBS American Experience Trailers
Total trailers found: 17
MacArthur Trailer (1999)
17 May 1999
MacArthur is a 1999 television documentary film about Douglas MacArthur, a United States General of the Army.
American Oz Trailer (2021)
19 April 2021
Explore the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of one of the most beloved, enduring and classic American narratives.
Billy Graham Trailer (2021)
17 May 2021
Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century.
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.
Two Days in October Trailer (2005)
17 October 2005
Based on David Maraniss's book They Marched into Sunlight, a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that changed the course of the Vietnam War.
Bataan Rescue Trailer (2003)
07 July 2003
This is the story of a group of 514 prisoners of war from the Bataan Death March and how they were rescued near the end of the war.
Jesse James Trailer (2006)
06 February 2006
He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and defenseless as well, always saving the treasure for himself.
The Man Who Tried to Feed the World Trailer (2020)
21 April 2020
The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India's famine problem but would go on to lead a "Green Revolution" of worldwide agriculture programs estimated to have saved one billion lives.
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.
Meltdown at Three Mile Island Trailer (1999)
22 February 1999
In the predawn hours of March 28, 1979, a reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, began to overheat.
Plague at the Golden Gate Trailer (2022)
24 May 2022
Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off feat and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco.
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".
The Poison Squad Trailer (2020)
28 January 2020
The story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley who, determined to banish dangerous substances from dinner tables, took on the powerful food manufacturers and their allies.
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.
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.
The Feud Trailer (2019)
10 September 2019
The feud between the Hatfields and McCoys is perhaps the most famous family conflict in American history.
