American Experience

- Season 31

(2018)

The history of the performing entertainment form in American history.

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Tracing the movement to breed a "better" American race, which turned the science of heredity into an instrument of social control that led to forced sterilization campaigns.

The history of the Florida Everglades and the efforts to reclaim, control and preserve the vast area once viewed as a wasteland.

The U.S. Navy's SEALAB, a pressurized underwater habitat complete with science labs and living quarters for divers, helps advance deep sea diving and rescue.

Tracking the early years of the space race beginning in 1957 as the U.S. struggles to catch up with the Soviet Union.

On 27 January 1967, the disastrous failure of Apollo 1 risked the cancellation of America's space program altogether. Within two years of the Apollo 1 fire, Apollo 8 became the first manned mission to escape the Earth's gravity and orbit the moon.

The years 1969-1970 take Americans to the moon and back; what happens to scientific and engineering programs after goals are achieved.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the 1969 three-day music and art fair at a farm in New York that marked the end of one of the most turbulent decades in American History.