American Experience Season 31

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The Circus: Part 1 Oct 8, 2018 The history of the performing entertainment form in American history.

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The Circus Part 2 Oct 9, 2018 In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was an audacious feat of engineering — a pressurized underwater habitat, designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor.Sealab tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.

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A Place Beyond the Sky Jul 8, 2019 A Place Beyond the Sky begins in 1957 and tracks the early years of the space race as the United States struggles to catch up with the Soviet Union.

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The Eugenics Crusade Oct 16, 2018 Tracing the movement to breed a "better" American race, which turned the science of heredity into an instrument of social control that led to forced sterilization campaigns.

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The Swamp Jan 15, 2019 The history of the Florida Everglades and the efforts to reclaim, control and preserve the vast area once viewed as a wasteland.

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Chasing the Moon (Part 3) Jul 10, 2019 Chasing the Moon, Part 3

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Sealab Feb 12, 2019 The U.S. Navy's SEALAB, a pressurized underwater habitat complete with science labs and living quarters for divers, helps advance deep sea diving and rescue.

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Chasing the Moon: A Place Beyond the Sky Jul 8, 2019 Tracking the early years of the space race beginning in 1957 as the U.S. struggles to catch up with the Soviet Union.

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Chasing the Moon: Earthrise Jul 9, 2019 On 27 January 1967, the disastrous failure of Apollo 1 risked the cancellation of America's space program altogether. Within two years of the Apollo 1 fire, Apollo 8 became the first manned mission to escape the Earth's gravity and orbit the moon.

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Chasing the Moon: Magnificent Desolation Jul 10, 2019 The years 1969-1970 take Americans to the moon and back; what happens to scientific and engineering programs after goals are achieved.

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Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation Aug 6, 2019 Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the 1969 three-day music and art fair at a farm in New York that marked the end of one of the most turbulent decades in American History.