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1. Across the Pacific (2020)

History

This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh

Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Brad Koed, Brian Muller, Sergey Nagorny

Votes: 70

2. Across the Pacific (2020)
Episode: Airborne (2020)

57 min | History

Airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airplane builder Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz struggle to find a place in post-World War I aviation. Their ... See full summary »

Directors: Stephen Lyons, Lisa Quijano Wolfinger | Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Jared Beaulieu, Amy Corral, Richard Derry

3. Across the Pacific (2020)
Episode: Latin Laboratory (2020)

History

As they push southward, Trippe, Sikorsky, Lindbergh and Leuteritz build larger flying boats, harness radio to navigate safely over great distances, and, with help from the U.S. government, ... See full summary »

Directors: Stephen Lyons, Lisa Quijano Wolfinger | Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Jake Berger, Richard Derry, Billy Donahue

4. Across the Pacific (2020)
Episode: Another Ocean (2020)

History

Defying the skeptics, Pan Am builds an airway to Asia, allowing its airplanes to hopscotch across the world's widest ocean by landing at five steppingstone islands: Hawaii, Midway, Wake ... See full summary »

Directors: Stephen Lyons, Lisa Quijano Wolfinger | Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Erin Eva Butcher, Gary Galone, Rebecca Gibel

5. Love Between the Covers (2015)

Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, History, Romance

In LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS Emmy Award Winning director Laurie Kahn turns her insightful eye towards another American pop culture phenomenon: the romance industry.

Director: Laurie Kahn | Stars: Len Barot, Melanie Bernier, Mary Bly, Celeste Bradley

Votes: 133

6. Katie Chats (2011–2015)
Episode: HotDocs International Film Festival Chats 2015 (2015)

Talk-Show

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Director: Joanne Uhlmann | Stars: Katie Uhlmann, Dennis Aig, Marco Amenta, Violeta Ayala

7. Katie Chats (2011–2015)

Talk-Show

Katie Uhlmann is a freelance entertainment host who chats with professionals in the entertainment industry.

Stars: Katie Uhlmann, Peter Keleghan, Cara Gee, Jonny Harris

Votes: 187

8. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Tupperware! (2004)

TV-G | 63 min | Documentary, Biography, History

This is about the origins of Tupperware in Massachusetts.

Director: Laurie Kahn | Stars: Kathy Bates, Will Le Bow, Karen MacDonald, Brownie Wise

Votes: 100

9. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: A Midwife's Tale (1998)

TV-PG | 89 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A docudrama adaptation of Ulrich's Pulitzer-winning book, which was based on thousands of entries in the journal of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife, in the late 1700's and early 1800's. The... See full summary »

Director: Richard P. Rogers | Stars: Ron Tough, Ruth Anderson, Jim Belding, Wallace Brown

Votes: 105

10. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Barnum's Big Top (1992)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

Story of P.T. Barnum and his role in developing the American Circus into a large business and a cultural force.

Director: Rocky Collins | Stars: David McCullough, Robert Lansing

Votes: 10

11. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo (1991)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

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Director: Robert Levi | Stars: Julian Bond, Duke Ellington, Mercer Ellington

Votes: 30

12. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance (1991)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

Recounting the historic attack of 1941, including the planning and military outlook of both the United States and Japan at the time.

Directors: Lance Bird, John Crowley, Tom Johnson | Star: Jason Robards

Votes: 16

13. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Coney Island (1991)

TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The film explores the beginnings of America's first amusement park and takes us through its good times all the way up to its end. The show was originally produced for PBS's American Experience.

Director: Ric Burns | Stars: Philip Bosco, Andrei Codrescu, Frederick P. Fried, Vincent Gardenia

Votes: 140

14. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: LBJ: Part 1 - Beautiful Texas (1991)

TV-PG | 112 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Award winning filmmaker David Grubin profiles one of the most controversial U.S. presidents, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who rose from obscurity to the pinnacle of power, only to suffer ... See full summary »

Director: David Grubin | Stars: David McCullough, Joe Cervetto, John Connally, Robert Dallek

Votes: 118

15. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry (1991)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

A story of the formation and service of the first all-Black military unit in the United States during the Civil War.

Director: Jacqueline Shearer | Stars: Rocky Carroll, Laurence Fishburne, Morgan Freeman, Carl Lumbly

Votes: 32

16. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: LBJ: Part 2 - My Fellow Americans (1991)

TV-PG | 111 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Award winning filmmaker David Grubin profiles one of the most controversial U.S. presidents, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who rose from obscurity to the pinnacle of power, only to suffer ... See full summary »

Stars: Lyndon B. Johnson, David McCullough, George Ball, Larry Berman

Votes: 110

17. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: G-Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover (1991)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

To understand J. Edgar Hoover's rise to power is to understand the America of the 1920s and 1930s and the building of both the power and the mythology of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Director: Irv Drasnin | Stars: David McCullough, Irv Drasnin

Votes: 23

18. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Los Mineros (1991)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

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Votes: 10

19. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Scandalous Mayor (1991)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

The story of the corrupt political dominance of Mayor James Curley and its effect on the city of Boston in the early 20th century.

Star: David McCullough

Votes: 10

20. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: After the Crash (1991)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

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Star: Jason Robards

Votes: 14

21. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: The Satellite Sky (1990)

TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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Director: Robert Stone

Votes: 24

22. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Lindbergh (1990)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History

After his famous flight, Charles Lindbergh becomes known to all the world but struggles with life in the limelight.

Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Arnold Forster, Brendan Gill, Stacy Keach, Max Lerner

Votes: 29

23. 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

24. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: The Iron Road (1990)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The building of the railroad between Sacramento, California and Omaha, Nebraska.

Director: Neil Goodwin

Votes: 13

25. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad (1990)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A chronicle of the organized efforts to help slaves find freedom in the north.

Director: Orlando Bagwell | Star: Ruby Dee

Votes: 24

26. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Richard Nixon: Part II (1990)

TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Richard M. Nixon was one of American history's most powerful figures. Recalling events etched in U.S. memory, this three-hour program explores a fateful mix of strength and weakness that ... See full summary »

Directors: Elizabeth Deane, David Espar, Marilyn Mellowes | Star: Will Lyman

Votes: 93

27. 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

28. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Battle for Wilderness (1990)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

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Votes: 9

29. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Forbidden City, USA (1990)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

The Americanization of Chinese people in the 1920s and 30s, including public roles that ran counter to their cultural history.

Director: Arthur Dong

Votes: 10

30. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: God Bless America and Poland, Too (1990)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

Polish immigration in the 1910s and the contributions of Poles to the United States.

Votes: 9

31. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Nixon: Part I (1990)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Richard M. Nixon was one of American history's most powerful figures. Recalling events etched in U.S. memory, this three-hour program explores a fateful mix of strength and weakness that ... See full summary »

Director: David Espar | Stars: Helen Gahagan, Will Lyman, Richard Nixon

Votes: 94

32. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Nixon: Part III (1990)

TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Richard M. Nixon was one of American history's most powerful figures. Recalling events etched in U.S. memory, this three-hour program explores a fateful mix of strength and weakness that ... See full summary »

Directors: Elizabeth Deane, David Espar, Marilyn Mellowes | Star: Will Lyman

Votes: 75

33. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil (1990)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

Oil exploration and the fortunes and failures of the independent opportunists who searched for it.

Director: Robert Tranchin | Stars: Mat Batron, Ligget Crim, Bertha Delz, Frankie Delz

Votes: 9

34. 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

35. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: The World That Moses Built (1989)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

Documentary about architect Robert Moses who is responsible for public works projects like the Lincoln Center and the United Nations in New York.

Stars: Robert Moses, Mark Obenhaus

Votes: 15

36. 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

37. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings (1989)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

A profile on American writer Eudora Welty.

Director: Patchy Wheatley | Stars: Charles Kuralt, Eudora Welty

Votes: 10

38. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Demon Rum (1989)

TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The spread of Prohibition from Henry Ford's Detroit factories nationwide

Director: Thomas Lennon | Star: Peter Thomas

Votes: 25

39. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: The Great Air Race of 1924 (1989)

TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Follows the 1924 attempt by four U.S. Army Air Corps biplanes to circumnavigate the globe.

Director: David Grubin | Star: David McCulloch

Votes: 21

40. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: The Great War: 1918 (1989)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History

America's experiences in France during World War I.

Director: Tom Weidlinger

Votes: 31

41. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

The work of a notable civil rights crusader in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Director: William Greaves | Stars: Troy Duster, Al Freeman Jr., Paula Giddings, Toni Morrison

Votes: 22

42. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Mr. Sears' Catalogue (1989)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

The story behind the mail order tome that brought merchandise (or dreams of it) within reach of Americans far and wide.

Directors: Edward Gray, Kenneth Levis | Star: Mark Obenhaus

Votes: 27

43. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Adam Clayton Powell (1989)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

Documentary on the life of civil rights advocate Powell, including his career as a Harlem minister and a US Congressman.

Votes: 16

44. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Ballad of a Mountain Man: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1989)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

Story of a folklore historian who sought to preserve the traditional music of the Appalachians for posterity.

Director: David Hoffman | Stars: Alan Bleviss, Merton Brown, Richard Dillingham, Berta Frady

Votes: 11

45. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Journey to America (1989)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

A tribute to the over 12 million immigrants entering the United States between 1890-1920.

Votes: 12

46. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Orphans of the Storm (1989)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

Thousands of children were evacuated overseas from Britain during World War II to escape the bombing of London and possible invasion by the Germans. This is the story of the children sent to live with foster families in America.

47. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven (1989)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

The story of Yosemite told through the diary of one of the first white Americans to visit the California valley.

Star: Robert Redford

Votes: 12

48. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Forever Baseball (1989)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A nostalgic treatment of the national pastime and its meaning in history.

Director: Irv Drasnin | Star: Irv Drasnin

Votes: 12

49. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: That Rhythm, Those Blues (1988)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A documentary covering the R&B (rhythm and blues) field from the 1940s to the early 1950s. Included is footage of performances by major R&B singers of the time, and interviews with singers, producers and others involved in the field.

Director: George T. Nierenberg | Stars: Ralph Bass, Pat Boone, Charles Brown, Ruth Brown

Votes: 24

50. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Views of a Vanishing Frontier (1988)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

An exploration of the Native Americans of 1830s western America, as seen through the eyes of European travelers Prince Maximilian of Bavaria and Swiss artist Karl Bodmer.

Director: Craig B. Fisher | Stars: George P. Horse Capture, Werner Klemperer, Sam Waterston

Votes: 11