American Experience

- Season 18

(2005)

A documentary about the Battle of Ong Thanh and the protest at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the Vietnam War.

The story of the Apollo 8 mission to the moon.

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The story of the Nuremberg Trials and Robert Jackson, the chief prosecutor.

The true story of the legendary outlaw Jesse James.

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The life and career of American playwright Eugene O'Neill.

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This one hour documentary examines the life of the famed Sharp Shooter and Wild West performer, Annie Oakley from her birth in mid nineteenth century rural Pennsylvania to her death in 1926. Many myths are overturned and the program also features a little known trial when Annie Oakley had to sue The Hearst Newspaper chain all throughout the country for libel when they reported the activities of someone who was impersonating the famed sharpshooter and besmirching her reputation.

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