American Experience 29
2017-01-10 | Documentary | 8 episodes38 Seasons
Episode
Command and Control (2017)
An account of an incident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Ark., in 1980 that almost caused the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead 600 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The near-calamity was kicked off when a socket fell from the wrench of an airman performing maintenance in a Titan II silo and punctured the missile, releasing a stream of highly explosive rocket fuel.
Directed By
- Robert Kenner
Rachel Carson (2017)
She set out to save a species...us. An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world.
The Race Underground (2017)
The dramatic story of the country's first subway.
Oklahoma City (2017)
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by literature and ideas of the radical right, killed 168, and injured 675 others.
Ruby Ridge (2017)
A riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement.