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1. Salem Witch Trials (2002 TV Movie)
189 min | Drama, History
A masterful work accurately details the current consensus of what exactly occurred to prompt the colonial witch trials.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Kirstie Alley, Henry Czerny, Gloria Reuben, Jay O. Sanders
Votes: 964
2.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Lobotomist
(2008)
TV-14 | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This program tells the gripping tale of medical intervention gone awry.
Directors: Barak Goodman, John Maggio | Stars: Campbell Scott, Lee Wilkof, Clint Jordan, Joanna Merlin
Votes: 149
3.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline
(1989)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of Emeline Bachelder, an early 19th-century New Englander who married a younger man - only to discover that he was the son she had give up when she was fourteen.
Director: Rocky Collins | Stars: Velma Brown, Aimee Epping, Billie Gammon, Florence Marshall
Votes: 29
4.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
A Family Gathering
(1989)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Lise Yasui explores three generations of her Japanese-American family - from their immigration to Oregon in the early 1900s through their imprisonment in internment camps during World War Two.
Directors: Ann Tegnell, Lise Yasui
Votes: 29
5.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Crash of 1929
(1990)
TV-G | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Examines the stock market crash of 1929 with interviews from descendants of several Wall Street insiders.
Stars: Philip Bosco, Reuben L. Cain, Calvin Coolidge, Rita Mitchell Cushman
Votes: 105
6.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Insanity on Trial
(1990)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The assassination of President James Garfield in 1880 by Charles Guiteau, who believed his actions were ordained by God, resulted in a trial where the plea "innocent by reason of insanity" was used for the first time.
Director: Rocky Collins | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Ron Vawter, Bart Whiteman, Robert Fields
Votes: 17
7.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Donner Party
(1992)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary exploring the struggles of The Donner Party, a group of American pioneers and their two Indigenous guides who became stranded in the Sierras during a horrible winter.
Director: Ric Burns | Stars: David McCullough, J.D. Cannon, Timothy Hutton, Gene Jones
Votes: 469
8.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Telegrams from the Dead
(1994)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Nineteenth-century Spiritualism. Life after death proved by "science."
Director: Rocky Collins | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Ann Braude, Jon Butler, Kevin Murray
Votes: 15
9.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Orphan Trains
(1995)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
In the 1850s, thousands of homeless children roamed New York City streets in search of food and shelter. The Children's Aid Society sent the children on trains to rural areas, where families would take in the orphans.
Directors: Janet Graham, Edward Gray | Stars: Stacy Keach, Charles Loring Brace IV, Matt Carlson, Dan Desmond
Votes: 57
10.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Nuremberg Trials
(2006)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of the Nuremberg Trials and Robert Jackson, the chief prosecutor.
Directors: Michael Kloft, Dave Pearce | Stars: Joe Morton, Walter Cronkite, Hermann Göring, William Jackson
Votes: 62
11.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
We Shall Remain: Part I - After the Mayflower
(2009)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In March of 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, Massasoit (actor Marcos Akiaten, Chiricauha Apache), the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, sat down to negotiate with a ragged ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Marcos Akiaten, Cassidy Alla, William Belleau, Ginew Benton
Votes: 163
12.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
We Shall Remain: Part II - Tecumseh's Vision
(2009)
TV-PG | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Each of the episodes focuses on important historical events and concludes with a short contemporary story that links the past to the present.
Directors: Ric Burns, Chris Eyre | Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Michael Greyeyes, Dwier Brown, Alex Meraz
Votes: 152
13.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
We Shall Remain: Part III - Trail of Tears
(2009)
TV-PG | 76 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The Cherokee would call it Nu-No-Du-Na Tlo-Hi-Lu, "The Trail Where They Cried." On May 26, 1838, federal troops forced thousands of Cherokee from their homes in the Southeastern United ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Jackson Walker, Elijah Abdullah, Thomas N. Belt, Josh Blaylock
Votes: 129
14.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
We Shall Remain: Part IV - Geronimo
(2009)
TV-PG | 78 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In February of 1909, the indomitable Chiricahua Apache warrior and war shaman Geronimo lay on his deathbed. He summoned his nephew to his side, whispering, "I should never have surrendered.... See full summary »
Directors: Sarah Colt, Dustinn Craig | Stars: Keith Basso, Benjamin Bratt, Collin G. Calloway, Silas Cochise
Votes: 116
15.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
We Shall Remain: Part V - Wounded Knee
(2009)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars, horns blaring, rolled into a small hamlet on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Within hours, some 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian ... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Nelson | Stars: Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, Benjamin Bratt, Carter Camp
Votes: 115
16.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Triangle Fire
(2011)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's Greenwich Village resulted in legislation ensuring the most comprehensive workplace safety laws in the U.S.
Director: Jamila Wignot | Stars: Michael Murphy, Annelise Orleck, Richard A. Greenwald, David Von Drehle
Votes: 160
17.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Great Famine
(2011)
TV-14 | 54 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The American Experience looks at Hebert Hoover's American Relief Administration and its efforts to distribute food during the Great Russian Famine of 1921.
Directors: Austin Hoyt, Aysyuak Yumagulov | Stars: Vasiliy Bairamov, Razilya Bilyalova, Ivan Bronevoy, Rita Davletgareeva
Votes: 92
18.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Stonewall Uprising
(2011)
TV-MA | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This documentary, part of American Experience (1987) series, examines the events leading up to what is now seen as the defining moment in the establishment of the gay rights movement in the... See full summary »
Directors: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner | Stars: Virginia Apuzzo, Martin Boyce, David Carter, Raymond Castro
Votes: 149
19.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Death and the Civil War
(2012)
TV-14 | 117 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Based on the best-selling book by Drew Gilpin Faust, this film will explore how the American Civil War created a "republic of suffering" and will chart the far-reaching social, political, ... See full summary »
Director: Ric Burns | Stars: James Cromwell, Keith David, Josh Hamilton, Gene Jones
Votes: 157
20.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
War of the Worlds
(2013)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.
Director: Cathleen O'Connell | Stars: Charissa Allen, Julian Arahanga, Edgar Bergen, Peter Bogdanovich
Votes: 323
21.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Ripley: Believe It or Not
(2015)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Robert Ripley - an odd everyman whose uncommon interests in oddities and odd facts catapulted him unexpectedly into public renown and lasting fame.
Director: Cathleen O'Connell | Stars: Oliver Platt, Robert J. Thompson
Votes: 72
22.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Klansville U.S.A.
(2015)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Investigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.
Director: Callie T. Wiser | Stars: Oliver Platt, David Cunningham, Rob Christensen, Michael Frierson
Votes: 163
23.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Perfect Crime
(2016)
TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The trial of wealthy college students Leopold and Loeb, who murder a 14-year-old boy in 1924, sets off a national firestorm about morality and capital punishment.
Director: Cathleen O'Connell | Stars: Oliver Platt, Simon Baatz, Hal Higdon, Carol S. Steiker
Votes: 200
24. Rasputin (1981)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line, Alisa Freyndlikh
Votes: 1,685
25. The Ritchie Boys (2004)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
Holocaust survivors share their story of fleeing to the United States, joining the US Army, training in Military Intelligence, and returning to Europe to end Nazism by using their linguistic abilities.
Director: Christian Bauer | Stars: Michael Hanrahan, Werner Angress, Victor Brombert, Marlene Dietrich
Votes: 264
26. The Lion in Winter (1968)
PG | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a decision.
Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle
Votes: 34,218 | Gross: $22.28M
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