American Experience (1988) Episode Scripts
Season 1
1. The Great San Francisco Earthquake2. Radio Bikini
5. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Season 6
1. Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage8. America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference
Season 7
1. FDR: Part I2. FDR: Part II
5. The Battle of the Bulge: World War II's Deadliest Battle
6. One Woman, One Vote
Season 9
1. T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (Part I)2. T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (Part II)
9. Around the World in 72 Days
Season 12
1. New York: Part I - The Country and the City2. New York: Part II - Order and Disorder
3. New York: Part III - Sunshine and Shadow
4. New York: Part IV - The Power and the People
5. New York: Part V - Cosmopolis
6. Eleanor Roosevelt
11. Houdini
13. Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
Season 14
1. New York: Part 6 - The City of Tomorrow2. New York: Part 7 - The City and the World
4. Woodrow Wilson: Episode One - A Passionate Man
5. Woodrow Wilson: Episode Two - The Redemption of the World
6. Mount Rushmore
11. Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film
12. A Brilliant Madness
Season 15
1. Jimmy Carter (Part I)2. Jimmy Carter: Part 2
3. Chicago: City of the Century: Part 1
4. Chicago: City of the Century: Part 2
5. Chicago: City of the Century: Part 3
6. The Murder of Emmett Till
12. Bataan Rescue
13. Murder at Harvard
Season 16
1. New York: Center of the World2. Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Part 1 - Revolution
3. Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Part 2 - Retreat
6. Tupperware!
7. Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman
9. Golden Gate Bridge
Season 18
3. Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 14. Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 2
6. The Nuremberg Trials
7. Jesse James
9. Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film
12. Annie Oakley
Season 19
1. Eyes on the Prize: Parts 1 & 2 - Awakenings/Fighting Back2. Eyes on the Prize: Parts 3 & 4 - Ain't Scared of Your Jails/No Easy Walk
3. Eyes on the Prize: Parts 5 & 6 - Is This America?/Bridge to Freedom
4. Test Tube Babies
5. The Great Fever
8. The Living Weapon
9. New Orleans
11. Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple
13. The Mormons: Part I
14. The Mormons: Part II
15. Alexander Hamilton
Season 20
3. Eyes on the Prize II (Parts I & II): The Time Has Come/Two Societies5. Eyes on the Prize II (Parts III & IV): Power!/The Promised Land
6. Eyes on the Prize II (Parts V & VI): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?
7. Kit Carson
8. Eyes on the Prize II (Parts VII & VIII): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement
9. Buffalo Bill
10. Minik, the Lost Eskimo
11. Walt Whitman
12. Roberto Clemente
13. George H.W. Bush: Part I
14. George H.W. Bush: Part II
Season 21
1. The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer2. The Polio Crusade
3. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
4. A Class Apart
5. We Shall Remain: Part I - After the Mayflower
6. We Shall Remain: Part II - Tecumseh's Vision
7. We Shall Remain: Part III - Trail of Tears
8. We Shall Remain: Part IV - Geronimo
9. We Shall Remain: Part V - Wounded Knee
10. The Kennedys
Season 24
1. Billy the Kid2. Custer's Last Stand
3. Clinton, Part 1
4. Clinton, Part 2
5. The Amish
7. Jesse Owens
Season 25
2. The Abolitionists: Part 13. The Abolitionists: Part 2
4. The Abolitionists: Part 3
5. Henry Ford
6. Silicon Valley
Season 26
1. War of the Worlds3. JFK: Part 2
6. The Poisoner's Handbook
7. 1964
8. The Amish: Shunned
9. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
10. The Rise and Fall of Penn Station
11. Freedom Summer
Season 27
3. Klansville U.S.A.4. Edison
5. The Big Burn
6. The Forgotten Plague
7. Last Days in Vietnam
8. Blackout
Season 28
1. Walt Disney - Part 12. Walt Disney - Part 2
4. The Pilgrims
5. Bonnie & Clyde
6. Mine Wars
7. Murder of a President
9. Space Men
10. The Boys of '36
Season 29
1. Tesla2. The Battle of Chosin
3. Command and Control
4. Rachel Carson
5. The Race Underground
6. Oklahoma City
7. Ruby Ridge
8. The Great War: Part 1
9. The Great War: Part 2
10. The Great War: Part 3
Season 30
1. Into the Amazon2. The Secret of Tuxedo Park
3. The Gilded Age
4. The Bombing of Wall Street
5. The Chinese Exclusion Act
Season 31
1. The Circus: Part 12. The Circus Part 2
3. The Eugenics Crusade
4. The Swamp
5. Sealab
6. Chasing the Moon: A Place Beyond the Sky
7. Chasing the Moon: Earthrise
8. Chasing the Moon: Magnificent Desolation
9. Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Season 32
1. The Feud3. McCarthy
4. The Poison Squad
5. The Man Who Tried to Feed the World
6. George W. Bush: Part 1
7. George W. Bush: Part 2
8. Mr. Tornado