American Experience (1988)

In 1906, the murder of Stanford White, New York architect and man-about-town, by Harry K. Thaw, heir to a Pittsburgh railroad fortune, was…

In 1878, Thomas Edison announced his intention to harness Niagara Falls and produce a safe, electric light system. He said he could do it i…

While America was reeling from the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King and public outcry against the Vietnam War, the D…

In the mid 19th century, thousands of children roamed the streets of New York in search of money, food and shelter. In an ambitious and con…

In the summer of 1964, two groups converged in Mississippi: one mostly young, white and well educated from out of state; the other, African…

Richard J. Daley was born on a street he would never leave and christened in the small church in which he would be buried. His climb up the…

A thinly-veiled portrait of the immensely powerful newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the movie created a buzz long before it was r…

Theirs is a quintessential American story of two midwestern boys who believed they could break the barrier of the air, succeeding where oth…

In the spring of 1960, Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Overnight, this top-secret plane became the…