American Experience 25
2013-01-08 | Documentary | 8 episodes37 Seasons
Episode
The Abolitionists: 1820s-1838 (2013)
The story of how abolitionist allies William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.
Directed By
- Rob Rapley
The Abolitionists: 1838-1854 (2013)
See how the activities of the five principals intersect and affect the anti-slavery movement.
Directed By
- Rob Rapley
The Abolitionists: 1854-Emancipation and Victory (2013)
Examine the forces leading to war and to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Directed By
- Rob Rapley
Henry Ford (2013)
An absorbing life story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth of the American auto industry with its long history of struggles between labor and management, and a thought-provoking reminder of how Ford's automobile forever changed the way we work, where we live, and our ideas about individuality, freedom, and possibility.
Silicon Valley (2013)
Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age.
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