Episode list

American Experience

The Lie Detector
Discover the story of the polygraph, the controversial device that transformed modern police work, seized headlines and was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool. A tale of good intentions, twisted morals and unintended consequences.
7.2 /10
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
An in-depth biography of the influential author whose ground-breaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
7.9 /10
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
Monopoly is America's favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. But behind the myth of the game's creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing.
7.3 /10
The Movement and the 'Madman'
Two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 cause President Richard Nixon to cancel his "madman" plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam.
7.7 /10
The Sun Queen

Mon, Apr 03, 2023
Scientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. Though undercut and thwarted by her male colleagues, she persevered to design the first successfully solar-heated house in 1948 and held more than 20 patents.
7.5 /10
Casa Susanna

Mon, Jun 26, 2023
In the '50s and '60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.
7.1 /10
The Busing Battleground
Court-mandated social integration unleashes racial unrest throughout Boston in the 1970s as Black and White students are bussed together.
7.5 /10

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