OFF THE GRID | Episode 1 | New Mexico | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-04-20 | Can solar technology fuel modern life? In the new video series OFF THE GRID, American Experience is traveling to three different climate zones across the United States to find out how — and why —people live off the grid.In this episode, we meet Zani, Yaseen and Khari, a family living off grid on a homestead in New Mexico.---Follow Zani, Yaseen and Khari here: youtube.com/@offgridhomesteadfam New episodes of OFF THE GRID drop Thursdays.This series is inspired by the documentary THE SUN QUEEN. For more about THE SUN QUEEN, visit pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/sun-queen
Transcending Media: How Narrative Shapes Trans Lives|Past Forward|American Experience |PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-07-13 | American Experience presents a virtual PAST FORWARD conversation examining the history and effects of transgender representation in media. This conversation is inspired by our new film Casa Susanna.Panelists will discuss the origins and legacy of gender nonconformity in film, television, and other media, exploring the ways in which these images have been used to caricature trans people and how media can be used toward more equitable ends. They will also examine the effects media representations have on public consciousness, how the public is made to understand normative gender roles through media, and whether media is helping or harming the progress of trans rights in the United States.Panelists:Sam Feder (he/they) is the Peabody Award-nominated director and co-producer of the groundbreaking Netflix Original Documentary DISCLOSURE. He has written for numerous Netflix television productions, and is currently developing the queer drama series WEIMAR with Executive Producers Lilly Wachowski and Bruce Cohen. Sam’s films dissect the complex intersections of race, class, and gender in the realm of visibility, forging new ground in the broader understanding of the politics of representation. Sam’s films have been screened at Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, The British Film Institute, as well as at festivals, museums, and art institutes the world over.Laura Horak (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She also serves as the director of the Transgender Media Lab and Transgender Media Portal. Her work is focused on the history of transgender and queer film and media in the United States, Canada, and Sweden. She has authored, edited, and co-edited several books, including Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressing Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 (Rutgers UP, 2016), Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space (Indiana UP, 2014), and Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019). She is also the co-curator of the 99-film Bluray set Cinema’s First Nasty Women (Kino Lorber, 2022).The discussion will be moderated by Raquel Willis (she/her). Raquel is an award-winning activist, author, and media strategist, whose work is focused on Black transgender liberation. She has served as director of communications for Ms. Foundation for Women, executive editor of Out magazine, and national organizer for Transgender Law Center. She is the co-founder of Transgender Week of Visibility and Action and currently serves as an executive producer for iHeartMedia's Outspoken. She is also the president of the Solutions Not Punishments Collaborative’s executive board, and is a WNBA Social Justice Council member. Her published work includes her memoir The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation, which is scheduled for publication in November, and the GLAAD Media Award-winning “Trans Obituaries Project".--Stream 'Casa Susanna': pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/casa-susannaLearn more about American Experience: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperienceWatch other Past Forward conversations: youtube.com/watch?v=UGIBrZBZupY&list=PLmh4YIWteoGhn6gwV1X_UebHijqwPHZ1_
Freedom Summer (full documentary) | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-07-11 | Official site: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomsummerIn the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over ten memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation’s most segregated states. Working together, they canvassed for voter registration, created Freedom Schools and established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party with the goal of challenging the segregationist state Democratic Party at the national convention in Atlantic City. Freedom Summer was marked by sustained and deadly violence, including the notorious murders of three civil rights workers, countless beatings, the burning of 35 churches and the bombing of 70 homes and community centers. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson (FREEDOM RIDERS, THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL), FREEDOM SUMMER highlights an overlooked but essential element of the civil rights movement: the patient and long-term efforts by outside activists and local citizens in Mississippi to organize communities and register Black voters — even in the face of intimidation, physical violence and death.---This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: pbs.org/donate Subscribe to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE channel for more videos: youtube.com/@AmericanExperiencePBS Enjoy full episodes of your favorite AMERICAN EXPERIENCE shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS App: to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR
The American Diplomat (full documentary) | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-07-04 | Official website: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/american-diplomatTHE AMERICAN DIPLOMAT explores the lives and legacies of three African-American ambassadors — Edward R. Dudley, Terence Todman and Carl Rowan — who pushed past historical and institutional racial barriers to reach high-ranking appointments in the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. At the height of the civil rights movement in the United States, they were asked to represent the best of American ideals abroad while facing discrimination at home. Colloquially referred to as “pale, male, and Yale,” the U.S. State Department fiercely maintained and cultivated the Foreign Service’s elitist character and was one of the last federal agencies to desegregate. Through rare archival footage, in-depth oral histories, and interviews with family members, colleagues and diplomats, the film paints a portrait of three men who created a lasting impact on the content and character of the Foreign Service and changed American diplomacy forever.-- This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: pbs.org/donate Subscribe to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE channel for more videos: youtube.com/@AmericanExperiencePBS Enjoy full episodes of your favorite AMERICAN EXPERIENCE shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS App: to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR
(Trans)formation: The Story of Christine Jorgensen | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-06-29 | On December 1, 1952 Americans were introduced to 26-year-old Christine Jorgensen, one of the first people to successfully undergo gender affirmation surgery. Instantaneously, the shy, private person previously known as George became an international media sensation, fascinating many and challenging others. At a time when public cross-dressing and other gender nonconforming behaviors were illegal, Jorgensen’s transformation offered transgender people the possibility of living as their authentic selves.--Visit AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's LGBTQ+ History collection here: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/collections/lgbtq-experience Subscribe to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE channel for more videos: youtube.com/@AmericanExperiencePBS Enjoy full episodes of your favorite AMERICAN EXPERIENCE shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS App: to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR
The TEA on Drag | What The History?! | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-06-28 | "RuPaul's Drag Race" premiered on television in 2009. In 2016, the show won its first Emmy, a feat it has replicated in every single subsequent year. Clearly, drag is popular. But what exactly is drag? And how did it find its way into the limelight? In this episode of WHAT THE HISTORY, host Sami Jarroush serves the tea on drag.--This episode of WHAT THE HISTORY?! is inspired by the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE documentary CASA SUSANNA, now streaming on PBS.org, the PBS App and for a limited time, on the American Experience YouTube channel.Official site: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/casa-susannaCheck out Sami Jarroush's channel, US 101, here: youtube.com/c/us101
Casa Susanna | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-06-28 | Official site: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/casa-susanna In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed—dressed as and living as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their self-expression. Told through the memories of those who visited the house, the film provides a moving look back at a secret world where the persecuted and frightened found freedom, acceptance and, often, the courage to live out of the shadows. -- This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: pbs.org/donate Subscribe to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE channel for more videos: youtube.com/@AmericanExperiencePBS Enjoy full episodes of your favorite AMERICAN EXPERIENCE shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS App: to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR
Casa Susanna | Chapter 1 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-06-20 | Official website: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/casa-susannaABOUT THE FILM: In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed—dressed as and living as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their gender presentation. Told through the memories of those who visited the house, CASA SUSANNA provides a moving look back at a secret world where the persecuted and frightened found freedom, acceptance and, often, the courage to live out of the shadows.CASA SUSANNA premieres Tuesday, June 27 at 9/8 central on PBS, PBS.org and here on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's YouTube channel.
Goin Back To T-Town (full documentary) | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-06-13 | Official website: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/t-townGOIN' BACK TO T-TOWN tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation. Torn apart in 1921 by one of the worst racially-motivated massacres in the nation’s history, the neighborhood rose from the ashes, and by 1936 boasted the largest concentration of Black-owned businesses in the U.S., known as “Black Wall Street.” Ironically, it could not survive the progressive policies of integration and urban renewal of the 1960s. Told through the memories of those who lived through the events, the film is a bittersweet celebration of small-town life and the resilience of a community’s spirit.--This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: pbs.org/donateSubscribe to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE channel for more clips: youtube.com/@AmericanExperiencePBSEnjoy full episodes of your favorite AMERICAN EXPERIENCE shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS App: to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR
Stonewall Uprising (full documentary) | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-06-06 | Official website: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/stonewall When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.---This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: pbs.org/donateSubscribe to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE channel for more clips: youtube.com/@AmericanExperiencePBSEnjoy full episodes of your favorite AMERICAN EXPERIENCE shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS App: to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR
CASA SUSANNA | Trailer | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-06-05 | Official website: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/casa-susannaIn the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed—dressed as and living as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized. Told through the memories of those who visited the house, CASA SUSANNA provides a moving look back at a secret world where the persecuted and frightened found freedom, acceptance and, often, the courage to live out of the shadows.Watch CASA SUSANNA live and stream anytime beginning Tuesday, June 27th at 9/8c on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS App.
The Codebreaker (full documentary) | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-05-10 | Official website: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/codebreaker | #CodebreakerPBSBased on the book "The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies," THE CODEBREAKER reveals the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work to decode thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison in the 1930s and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII. Her remarkable contributions would come to light decades after her death, when secret government files were unsealed. But together with her husband, the legendary cryptologist William Friedman, Elizebeth helped develop the methods that led to the creation of the powerful new science of cryptology and laid the foundation for modern codebreaking today.This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: pbs.org/donateSubscribe to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE channel for more clips: youtube.com/@AmericanExperiencePBSEnjoy full episodes of your favorite AMERICAN EXPERIENCE shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS App: to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR
OFF THE GRID | Episode 3 | Vermont | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-05-04 | Can solar technology fuel modern life? In this video series, American Experience travels to three different climate zones across the United States to find out how -- and why -- people are living off the grid.In this episode of OFF THE GRID, we meet Heidi and Evan who run Small Axe Farm, a one-acre off grid market farm in Vermont where they strive to live in balance with nature and their community. ---This series is inspired by the documentary THE SUN QUEEN. For more about THE SUN QUEEN, visit pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/sun-queen/.
OFF THE GRID Intro #shorts | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-04-28 | Can modern technology fuel modern life? Join American Experience as we travel across three different climate zones in the U.S. to find out how and why people live OFF THE GRID.Meet the family living on a homestead in New Mexico youtu.be/PH6O1Gzz6NIMeet the couple living in a one-bedroom cabin in Minnesota youtu.be/TUfutbdmIasNew episodes drop Thursdays.
OFF THE GRID | Episode 2 | Minnesota | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-04-27 | Can solar technology fuel modern life? In this video series, American Experience travels to three different climate zones across the United States to find out how -- and why -- people are living off the grid.In this episode of OFF THE GRID, we meet Cierra and Kyle who, in their one-bedroom Minnesota cabin, are making use of all of nature's elements to live their best lives off-grid.---To learn more about Kyle and Cierra, go to @KYLESCABIN New episodes of OFF THE GRID drop Thursdays.
OFF THE GRID Series | Intro | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-04-18 | Can solar technology power modern life? Join AMERICAN EXPERIENCE as we travel to three different climate zones across the United States to find out how– and why, people live off the grid.Our three-part series begins Thursday, April 20.pbs.org/americanexperience
Dr. Mária Telkes | TRAILBLAZERS | THE SUN QUEEN | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-04-13 | Chemical engineer and inventor Dr. Mária Telkes was known as America’s “Sun Queen.”After training as a chemist in her native Hungary, Telkes immigrated to the United States, where she devoted her life to advancing the science of solar energy.In 1964, the 63-year-old Telkes was still hard at work when she was invited to speak at the First International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists. Here's what she had to say.---Learn more about Telkes in the American Experience documentary, THE SUN QUEEN, now streaming at pbs.org/americanexperience.
Running on Fumes:Why aren’t we all using clean energy already?|Past Forward|American Experience |PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-04-13 | American Experience presents a virtual PAST FORWARD conversation examining the history and future of sustainable energy policies in the United States. This conversation is inspired in part by their new streaming film 'The Sun Queen.'Panelists will discuss the public enthusiasm for solar energy in the 1950s and why that dwindled for many decades, and how and why renewable energy has become a political/partisan issue. They will explore the true costs of different energy sources, how those are disproportionately felt by lower socioeconomic communities, and how the United States might move forward to a greener energy future.Panelists:Daniel A. Barber is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and a Guggenheim Fellow. His most recent book is Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (Princeton University Press, 2020), following on A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2016). His research and writing focus on how architecture is changing to meet the challenges of the climate emergency. He lives and works in Sydney.Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins champions public policy solutions that promote economic, social, and environmental benefits for communities. As a social entrepreneur, she co-envisioned the Communities First Infrastructure Alliance to advance community-centered plans, racial equity practices, and climate resilience principles serving as Vice President of Strategies. She is a 2022 Open Society Leadership in Government Fellow who previously served as a former political appointee in the Obama administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation and former local government leader. She began her career working on Capitol Hill. She is a cultural bearer, wife, mother, and community advocate, who lives in Washington, D.C.The conversation will be moderated by Ivan Penn, a Los Angeles-based reporter for The New York Times covering alternative energy. Before coming to The New York Times in 2018 he covered utility and energy issues for nearly eight years at The Tampa Bay Times and then The Los Angeles Times. He also worked at The Miami Herald and The Baltimore Sun, where he was an investigative reporter and covered government, politics and criminal justice. A native of Washington, he grew up in Maryland and graduated from the University of Maryland.--Stream 'The Sun Queen': pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/sun-queenLearn more about American Experience: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperienceWatch other Past Forward conversations: youtube.com/watch?v=UGIBrZBZupY&list=PLmh4YIWteoGhn6gwV1X_UebHijqwPHZ1_
THE MOVEMENT AND THE MADMAN | The Media | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-04-07 | As the MOBE escalated their efforts in protesting the Vietnam War, President Nixon's administration decided that it was time to attack the media covering the anti-war protests.THE MOVEMENT AND THE “MADMAN” is now streaming on our website and the PBS app.pbs.org/americanexperience
The Dover Sun House | THE SUN QUEEN | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-03-30 | In the winter of 1948, a family of three moved into a newly built house in Dover, Massachusetts with curiously large windows. The Dover Sun House, as it came to be known, was the brainchild of chemical engineer and inventor Mária Telkes, obsessed with harnessing the power of the sun. No one had ever tried to survive a frigid New England winter in a home heated by nothing but the sun. The Nemethys were the first to try.--Learn more about the scientist behind the Dover Sun House in American Experience's new documentary THE SUN QUEEN, available beginning April 4, 2023 on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS app.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/sun-queen
THE SUN QUEEN | Chapter 1 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-03-28 | For nearly 50 years, chemical engineer and inventor Mária Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to harnessing the power of the sun, including designing and building the world’s first successfully solar-heated modern residence. Along the way, she was undercut and thwarted by her male boss and colleagues at MIT, but persevered despite these obstacles, holding more than 20 patents upon her death.Meet THE SUN QUEEN, premiering Tuesday, April 4 on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS app.For more about THE SUN QUEEN, visit pbs.org/americanexperience
THE SUN QUEEN | Trailer | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-03-23 | For nearly 50 years, chemical engineer and inventor Mária Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to harnessing the power of the sun. She designed and built the world’s first successfully solar-heated modern residence and identified a promising new chemical that, for the first time, could store solar heat like a battery. And yet, along the way, she was undercut and thwarted by her boss and colleagues — all men — at MIT. Despite these obstacles, Telkes persevered and, upon her death in 1995, held more than 20 patents. She is now recognized as a visionary pioneer in the field of sustainable energy. An unexpected and largely forgotten heroine, Telkes was remarkable in her vision and tenacity — a scientist and a woman in every way ahead of her time. Her research and innovations from the 1930s through the ‘70s continue to shape how we power our lives today.Don't miss AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's latest biography, THE SUN QUEEN, premiering Tuesday, April 4 at 9/8 central on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS app.
The Movement and the Madman | Chapter 1 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS | American Experience | PBS 2023-03-22 | THE MOVEMENT AND THE "MADMAN" shows how two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 — the largest the country had ever seen — pressured President Nixon to cancel what he called his “madman” plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam, including a threat to use nuclear weapons. At the time, protestors had no idea how influential they could be and how many lives they may have saved. Told through remarkable archival footage and firsthand accounts from movement leaders, Nixon administration officials, historians, and others, the film explores how the leaders of the antiwar movement mobilized disparate groups from coast to coast to create two massive protests that changed history. A special presentation of American Experience, THE MOVEMENT AND THE "MADMAN" premieres Tuesday, March 28 at 9/8 central on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS app.
The Woman Behind Monopoly | What The History?! | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-02-22 | Monopoly might be America's favorite board game, but it has a surprising secret. The true inventor of the game is a woman you've probably never heard of: Lizzie Magie. In this episode of WHAT THE HISTORY?! we give you the inside scoop of Monopoly's true origins.For more about the surprising true history of Monopoly, watch our doc RUTHLESS: MONOPOLY'S SECRET HISTORY on our website and the PBS app.pbs.org/americanexperience
3 Surprising Facts About Monopoly # shorts | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-02-21 | Everyone loves Monopoly, and it turns out it's useful for doing more than just bankrupting your siblings and friends! Here are three surprising ways that America's favorite board game was used throughout history.Stream the new AMERICAN EXPERIENCE doc RUTHLESS: MONOPOLY'S SECRET HISTORY anytime on americanexperience.org or the PBS Video app.
RUTHLESS: MONOPOLYS SECRET HISTORY | Chapter One | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-02-21 | For generations, Monopoly has been America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and — for better or worse — the impulses that make our free-market society tick. But behind the myth of the game’s creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing. Part detective story, part sharp social commentary and part pop-culture celebration, RUTHLESS: MONOPOLY'S SECRET HISTORY presents the fascinating true story behind America’s favorite game. Written and Directed by Stephen Ives and Executive Produced by Cameo George, RUTHLESS: MONOPOLY'S SECRET HISTORY premieres Monday, February 20, 2023, 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS Video app. Watch live. Stream anytime.Visit pbs.org/americanexperience for more about this documentary.
Anthropology and Appropriation: Where is the line? | Past Forward | American Experience | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-02-15 | American Experience presents a virtual PAST FORWARD conversation exploring the intersection between studying and stealing culture, inspired in part by their streaming film 'Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space.'Our panelists will discuss the history of anthropology and culture, the power dynamics inherent in our cultural awareness, the damage done to marginalized cultures when the dominant culture adopts their practices, and the line between appreciating and appropriating culture.Featured guests:Eve Dunbar, Professor of English on the Jean Webster Chair at Vassar College.Jonathan Square, Writer, historian, and curator of Afro-Diasporic fashion and visual culture.This conversation will be moderated by Adriane Lentz-Smith, Associate Professor of History at Duke University.--Stream 'Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space': pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/zora-neale-hurston-claiming-spaceLearn more about American Experience: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperienceWatch other Past Forward conversations: youtube.com/watch?v=UGIBrZBZupY&list=PLmh4YIWteoGhn6gwV1X_UebHijqwPHZ1_
RUTHLESS: MONOPOLYS SECRET HISTORY | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS | Trailer American Experience | PBS 2023-02-10 | For generations, Monopoly has been America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and — for better or worse — the impulses that make our free-market society tick. But behind the myth of the game’s creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing. Contrary to the folksy legend spread by Parker Brothers, Monopoly’s secret history is a surprising saga that features a radical feminist, a community of Quakers in Atlantic City, America’s greatest game company, and an unemployed Depression-era engineer. And the real story behind the creation of the game might never have come to light if it weren’t for the determination of an economics professor and impassioned anti-monopolist.Part detective story, part sharp social commentary and part pop-culture celebration, RUTHLESS: MONOPOLY'S SECRET HISTORY presents the fascinating true story behind America’s favorite game.RUTHLESS: MONOPOLY'S SECRET HISTORY premieres on PBS and the PBS app Monday, February 20, 2023 at 9/8 central.
American Experience TRAILBLAZERS | ZORA NEALE HURSTON | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-02-01 | In 1936, the anthropologist and noted Harlem Renaissance figure Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Jamaica to learn the customs and traditions of its free Black population. Her experience there highlights one of the many ways she was ahead of her time. To learn more about Zora Neale Hurston, watch the new doc ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE at pbs.org/americanexperience and on the PBS Video app.
The Films of Zora Neale Hurston | ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-01-17 | "Recently, Zora Neale Hurston has gotten a lot of attention because of two books: 'Barracoon' was released, and 'You Don't Know Us Negroes.' Those two books have put Zora Neale Hurston in the public eye and people have rediscovered her films."We spoke to Tracy Heather Strain, the writer, producer and director of ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE about how Hurston used film as an ethnographic tool to document Black lives and show the importance and beauty of Black culture.Watch or stream ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE on PBS or the PBS Video app beginning January 17 at 9/8 central.pbs.org/americanexperience
ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE | Chapter One | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-01-15 | Watch the opening scenes of the new AMERICAN EXPERIENCE biography ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE, premiering Tuesday, January 17 on PBS and the PBS Video app.Zora Neale Hurston has long been considered a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, but her anthropological and ethnographic endeavors were equally important and impactful.ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE | PROMO | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-01-09 | Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God." But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.Directed by Tracy Heather Strain, produced by Randall MacLowry and executive produced by Cameo George, ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE premieres Tuesday, January 17 at 9/8 central on PBS.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/zora-neale-hurston-claiming-space
The Third Degree | What The History?! | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2023-01-03 | In American English, “giving someone the third degree” is an idiom used to describe especially harsh or incessant questioning, but where does this term come from? In this episode of What the History from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, host Sami Jarroush helps us explore the origins of the term, and how the third degree is connected to the invention of The Lie Detector. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's new film "The Lie Detector" premieres on PBS Tuesday, January 3 at 9/8 central. Visit pbs.org/americanexperience to stream anytime.Check out Sami Jarroush's channel, US 101, here: youtube.com/c/us101
The Lie Detector | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS | Trailer American Experience | PBS 2022-12-28 | In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they could tell whether someone was lying by using a machine. Popularly known as the “lie detector,” the device transformed police work, seized headlines and was extolled in movies, TV and comics as an infallible crime-fighting tool. Husbands and wives tested each other’s fidelity. Corporations routinely tested employees’ honesty and government workers were tested for loyalty and “morals.” But the promise of the polygraph turned dark, and the lie detector too often became an apparatus of fear and intimidation. Premiering on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Tuesday, January 3 at 9/8 c on PBS, THE LIE DETECTOR is a tale of good intentions, twisted morals and unintended consequences.
Coming in 2023 | Season 35 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2022-12-13 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE returns in January 2023 with a new season of documentaries that explore diverse facets of modern American history through the stories of a unique group of writers, inventors, innovators and iconoclasts. Executive Producer Cameo George introduces the films premiering this winter.
Operation Ajax | TAKEN HOSTAGE | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS American Experience | PBS 2022-12-02 | In 1953, Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh was dismissed from office with a decree from the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, carried out by the Iranian Imperial Guard. The military coup was the culmination of many months of secret planning and activity by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) as part of a plot to overthrow the Iranian government-- a plan known as Operation Ajax. American Experience's TAKEN HOSTAGE is streaming now at pbs.org/americanexperience and the PBS Video app.
The Event That Held The News Hostage | TAKEN HOSTAGE American Experience | PBS 2022-11-16 | The barrage of the 24-hour news cycle is never-ending. News wasn't always like this. In fact, one event in 1979 changed the modern media landscape forever: The Iran hostage crisis.Official website: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/taken-hostageUnfolding like a political thriller, TAKEN HOSTAGE tells the story of the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats, Marines and civilians were held hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. For the next 444 days, the world watched as the United States received a daily barrage of humiliation, vitriol and hatred from a country that had long been one of our closest allies. Told through the candid, personal testimony of those whose lives were upended by the action, the crisis would transform both the U.S. and Iran and forever upend the focus and direction of American foreign policy.TAKEN HOSTAGE is now streaming on the PBS Video app.
TAKEN HOSTAGE | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | Part Two, Chapter One American Experience | PBS 2022-11-15 | Part Two of TAKEN HOSTAGE uses eyewitness testimony to follow the harrowing 444-day standoff between the U.S. and Iran over the holding of 52 hostages at the American embassy in Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981. The Iran Hostage Crisis would permanently rupture relations between the two countries and ignite a growing anti-American militancy across the Muslim world, setting the stage for the attacks of 9/11.TAKEN HOSTAGE is available to stream beginning November 15, 2022 on PBS.org, the PBS Video app and pbs.org/americanexperience
TAKEN HOSTAGE | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PART ONE, CHAPTER ONE American Experience | PBS 2022-11-11 | Watch the opening scenes of TAKEN HOSTAGE, premiering on @PBS Monday, November 14, 2022.Unfolding like a political thriller, TAKEN HOSTAGE tells the story of the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats, Marines and civilians were held hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran beginning on November 4, 1979. For the next 444 days, the world watched as the United States received a daily barrage of humiliation, vitriol and hatred from a country that had long been one of our closest allies. The crisis would transform both the U.S. and Iran and forever upend the focus and direction of American foreign policy. Learn more at pbs.org/americanexperience
TAKEN HOSTAGE | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | Whos Who in the Iran Hostage Crisis American Experience | PBS 2022-11-07 | A hostage. A President. A hostage taker. A Shah. A hostage's wife. An Ayatollah. A reporter. Meet the major players in the Iran Hostage Crisis.Unfolding like a political thriller, TAKEN HOSTAGE tells the story of the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats, Marines and civilians were held hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. For the next 444 days, the world watched as the United States received a daily barrage of humiliation, vitriol and hatred from a country that had long been one of our closest allies. Told through the candid, personal testimony of those whose lives were upended by the action, the crisis would transform both the U.S. and Iran and forever upend the focus and direction of American foreign policy.Watch or stream TAKEN HOSTAGE beginning Monday, November 14 on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS Video app.Visit pbs.org/americanexperience to learn more.
Media and Murder: Why do we have to see it to believe it?| American Experience | PBS American Experience | PBS 2022-10-17 | American Experience presents a virtual PAST FORWARD conversation examining the role of the media in shaping public perception around the murders of Black Americans. This conversation is inspired, in part, by our streaming documentary 'The Murder of Emmett Till.'Our panelists will discuss how publicity of racial violence and murder can both force society to confront it and reinforce a system of oppression. They will explore the responsibility and power of the media, the progress that has been made, and how institutions can change to protect Black lives from racist hatred and violence—starting with Emmett Till’s murder and bringing us through today.Featured Guests:Danielle McGuire PhD: award-winning historian, public speaker and author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance-a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Knopf)Allissa Richardson: Professor of Journalism at USC Annenberg and author of Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #JournalismThis conversation will be moderated by Kahlil Greene, the Gen-Z Historian and Yale's first Black student body president.--Learn more about American Experience: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperienceWatch other Past Forward conversations: youtube.com/watch?v=UGIBrZBZupY&list=PLmh4YIWteoGhn6gwV1X_UebHijqwPHZ1_
TAKEN HOSTAGE | American Experience | PBS | Trailer American Experience | PBS 2022-10-11 | TAKEN HOSTAGE premieres Monday & Tuesday, November 14 & 15, 9:00-11:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS Video app. Unfolding like a political thriller, TAKEN HOSTAGE is a riveting four-hour, two-part documentary film about the Iran hostage crisis, when more than fifty American diplomats, Marines and civilians were taken hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. For the next 444 days, the world watched as the United States received a daily barrage of humiliation, vitriol and hatred from a country that had long been one of our closest allies. The crisis would transform both the U.S. and Iran and forever upend the focus and direction of American foreign policy.
The War on Rats | Plague at the Golden Gate | American Experience | PBS American Experience | PBS 2022-09-07 | Fleas carried the plague; but rats carried the fleas. So San Francisco's health officials began trying to rid the city of rats.Official Website: to.pbs.org/37apJCC | #PlagueInSanFranPBSMore than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor. It was the first time in history that civilization’s most feared disease — the infamous Black Death — made it to North America. Two doctors — vastly different in temperament, training, and experience — used different methods to lead the seemingly impossible battle to contain the disease before it could engulf the country. In addition to overwhelming medical challenges, they faced unexpected opposition from business leaders, politicians, and even the president of the United States. Fueling the resistance would be a potent blend of political expediency, ignorance, greed, racism, and deep-rooted distrust of not only federal authority but science itself. Scapegoated as the source of the disease early on, the Chinese community fought back against unjust, discriminatory treatment. This gripping and relevant story of the desperate race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from the deadly disease, Plague at the Golden Gate is based in part on David K. Randall’s critically acclaimed book, Black Death at the Golden Gate.This program is made possible by viewers like you. Please support your local PBS stations: pbs.org/donateSubscribe to the American Experience | PBS channel for more clips: youtube.com/AmericanExperiencePBSEnjoy full episodes of American Experience anytime, anywhere with the free PBS Video App: to.pbs.org/2QbtzhRFOLLOW US:Facebook: facebook.com/AmericanExperiencePBSTwitter: twitter.com/AmExperiencePBSInstagram: instagram.com/AmericanExperiencePBSShop: shop.pbs.org#plague #rats #SanFrancisco
The Murder of Emmett Till | Full Episode | American Experience | PBS American Experience | PBS 2022-09-06 | In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy allegedly flirted with a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until three days later, when two white men dragged him from his bed in the dead of night, beat him brutally and then shot him in the head. Although his killers were arrested and charged with murder, they were both acquitted quickly by an all-white, all-male jury. Shortly afterwards, the defendants sold their story, including their tale of how they murdered Till, to a journalist. The murder and the trial horrified the nation and the world. Till's death was a spark that helped mobilize the civil rights movement. Three months after his body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, the Montgomery bus boycott began.This program is made possible by viewers like you. Please support your local PBS stations: pbs.org/donateSubscribe to the @AmericanExperiencePBS channel for more clips: youtube.com/c/AmericanExperiencePBSEnjoy full episodes of American Experience anytime, anywhere with the free PBS Video App: to.pbs.org/2QbtzhRFOLLOW US:Facebook: facebook.com/AmericanExperiencePBSTwitter: twitter.com/AmExperiencePBSInstagram: instagram.com/americanexperiencepbsShop: shop.pbs.org#EmmettTill #CivilRightsMovement #History
Command and Control: The Uterus | Past Forward | American Experience | PBS American Experience | PBS 2022-07-28 | Join American Experience for a virtual PAST FORWARD conversation exploring the history of reproductive rights and future of bodily autonomy in America.Panelists will explore the impact of the recent Dobbs decision on public health and constitutional law, the complex history of the struggle for reproductive rights, the risks women and childbearing people take to secure bodily autonomy, the disproportionate impact of historical and current laws on poor women and women of color, and what might happen next.Featured guests:Renée M. Landers: Professor of law at Suffolk University, and the faculty director of the Health and Biomedical Law Concentration, and the Master of Science in Law Life Sciences Program.Cathleen Kaveny: Professor of Law and Theology at Boston College.The conversation will be moderated by Adriane Lentz-Smith, an associate professor of history at Duke University.--Learn more about American Experience: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperienceWatch other Past Forward conversations: youtube.com/watch?v=UGIBrZBZupY&list=PLmh4YIWteoGhn6gwV1X_UebHijqwPHZ1_
Pandemics and Pop Culture: Fiction or Reality? | Past Forward | American Experience | PBS American Experience | PBS 2022-05-31 | American Experience presents a virtual PAST FORWARD conversation comparing real life pandemics and their pop culture analogues. This conversation is inspired in part by their film, Plague at the Golden Gate, now streaming.Panelists will explore the popularity of books, movies and shows about viruses and pandemics, and connect what we see on the screen to how scientists and doctors deal with outbreaks in real life. They’ll delve into the technology of virus hunting–both in real life and in the movies, examine the political and social norms reflected in the media and in reality, and draw comparisons between pandemics of the past and the present.Featured guest:Ian Lipkin - Professor of epidemiology, pathology and neurology, and Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and scientific advisor on the 2011 film, Contagion.The conversation will be moderated by Marilyn Chase, former health reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and the author of The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco (Random House)--Learn more about American Experience: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperienceWatch "Plague at the Golden Gate": pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/plague-golden-gateWatch other Past Forward conversations: youtube.com/watch?v=UGIBrZBZupY&list=PLmh4YIWteoGhn6gwV1X_UebHijqwPHZ1_
The Man Who Found Plague #Shorts | Plague at the Golden Gate American Experience | PBS 2022-05-23 | Dr. Joseph Kinyoun sought to prevent the spread of bubonic plague in San Francisco, by any means necessary. #ShortsWatch PLAGUE AT THE GOLDEN GATE on Tue May 24 at 9/8c on @AmericanExperiencePBS #PlagueInSanFranPBS
Rainbow Rats #Shorts | Plague at the Golden Gate | American Experience | PBS American Experience | PBS 2022-05-20 | San Francisco waged a war on rats to stop the plague. #ShortsWatch PLAGUE AT THE GOLDEN GATE on Tue May 24 at 9/8c on @AmericanExperiencePBS #PlagueInSanFranPBS
Hiding a Plague Outbreak #Shorts | Plague in the Golden Gate | American Experience | PBS American Experience | PBS 2022-05-19 | Watch PLAGUE AT THE GOLDEN GATE on Tue May 24 at 9/8c on @AmericanExperiencePBS #PlagueInSanFranPBS #Shorts
Ng Poon Chew | Plague at the Golden Gate | American Experience | PBS American Experience | PBS 2022-05-18 | Ng Poon Chew's newspaper Chung Sai Yat Po was crucial in advocating for the Chinese community during San Francisco's plague outbreak.Official Website: to.pbs.org/37apJCC | #PlagueInSanFranPBSMore than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor. It was the first time in history that civilization’s most feared disease — the infamous Black Death — made it to North America. Two doctors — vastly different in temperament, training, and experience — used different methods to lead the seemingly impossible battle to contain the disease before it could engulf the country. In addition to overwhelming medical challenges, they faced unexpected opposition from business leaders, politicians, and even the president of the United States. Fueling the resistance would be a potent blend of political expediency, ignorance, greed, racism, and deep-rooted distrust of not only federal authority but science itself. Scapegoated as the source of the disease early on, the Chinese community fought back against unjust, discriminatory treatment. This gripping and relevant story of the desperate race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from the deadly disease, Plague at the Golden Gate is based in part on David K. Randall’s critically acclaimed book, Black Death at the Golden Gate.This program is made possible by viewers like you. Please support your local PBS stations: pbs.org/donateSubscribe to the American Experience | PBS channel for more clips: youtube.com/AmericanExperiencePBSEnjoy full episodes of American Experience anytime, anywhere with the free PBS Video App: to.pbs.org/2QbtzhRFOLLOW US:Facebook: facebook.com/AmericanExperiencePBSTwitter: twitter.com/AmExperiencePBSInstagram: instagram.com/AmericanExperiencePBSShop: shop.pbs.org
