American Experience | |
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Season 21 | |
No. of episodes | 9 |
Release | |
Original network | PBS |
Original release | January 26 May 11, 2009 | –
Season chronology | |
Season twenty-one of the television program American Experience originally aired on the PBS network in the United States on January 26, 2009 and concluded on May 11, 2009. The season contained nine new episodes and began with the film The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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No. in season | Title | Directed by | Categories | Original air date | |
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248 | 1 | "The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer" [3] | David Grubin | Biographies, Technology, War | January 26, 2009 | |
The film focuses on the
1954 security hearing of
J. Robert Oppenheimer, called a "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the
Manhattan Project. He was held before the
United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) for being a suspected
Communist.
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249 | 2 | "The Polio Crusade" [4] | Sarah Colt | Popular Culture, Technology | February 2, 2009 | |
Examines the impact of the
infectious disease
polio and the
campaign to conquer it beginning with the nonprofit organization
March of Dimes in the 1930s and culminating in the creation of a vaccine by Dr.
Jonas Salk in the 1950s. The film is in part based on the book,
Polio: An American Story, by
David Oshinsky. | ||||||
250 | 3 | "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" [5] | Barak Goodman | Presidents | February 9, 2009 | |
The film chronicles the life of assassin
John Wilkes Booth and his assassination of President
Abraham Lincoln, the
third president to die while in office. Lincoln was
shot once in the back of his head while watching a play at
Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. | ||||||
251 | 4 | "A Class Apart" [6] | Peter Miller & Carlos Sandoval | Civil Rights, Popular Culture | February 23, 2009 | |
The film chronicles a small-town Texas murder and its development into a landmark civil rights case in which Mexican American lawyers take
Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging
Jim Crow–style discrimination. | ||||||
252 | 5 | " We Shall Remain (Part 1)" [7] | Chris Eyre | Civil Rights, Native American History, Politics, The American West | April 13, 2009 | |
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253 | 6 | "We Shall Remain (Part 2)" [8] | Ric Burns & Chris Eyre | Civil Rights, Native American History, Politics, The American West | April 20, 2009 | |
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254 | 7 | "We Shall Remain (Part 3)" [9] | Chris Eyre | Civil Rights, Native American History, Politics, The American West | April 27, 2009 | |
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255 | 8 | "We Shall Remain (Part 4)" [10] | Sarah Colt & Dustinn Craig | Civil Rights, Native American History, Politics, The American West | May 4, 2009 | |
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256 | 9 | "We Shall Remain (Part 5)" [11] | Stanley Nelson | Civil Rights, Native American History, Politics, The American West | May 11, 2009 | |
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