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American Experience - The Greely Expedition

The Greely Expedition The Greely Expedition
An epic story of adventure, abandonment and human tragedy, The Greely Expedition tells of an 1881 scientific mission to the Arctic that ended with death and rumors of cannibalism.
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1773964253/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false An epic story of adventure, abandonment and human tragedy, The Greely Expedition tells of an 1881 scientific mission to the Arctic that ended with death and rumors of cannibalism. /episodes/get/699 /episode/699 American Experience: The Greely Expedition /episode-player/699
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The Rockefellers
The Rockefellers
John D. Rockefeller was the world's first billionaire and the most hated man in America. Watch the epic story of the man who monopolized oil. Broadcasting on many PBS stations February 12, 2013. Check your location listings.
Air date: 10/17/2000 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2334127894/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false John D. Rockefeller was the world's first billionaire and the most hated man in America. Watch the epic story of the man who monopolized oil. Broadcasting on many PBS stations February 12, 2013. Check your location listings. /episodes/get/8066 /episode/8066 American Experience: The Rockefellers /episode-player/8066
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
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...
Air date: 02/06/2013 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2332168287/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false 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... /episodes/get/6825 /episode/6825 American Experience: Silicon Valley /episode-player/6825
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The biography of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, this documentary of Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth of the American auto industry with its long history of struggles between labor and management.
Air date: 01/30/2013 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2329934360/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false The biography of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, this documentary of Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth of the American auto industry with its long history of struggles between labor and management. /episodes/get/6815 /episode/6815 American Experience: Henry Ford /episode-player/6815
The Abolitionists
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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.
Air date: 01/09/2013 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2323777396/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false 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. /episodes/get/6641 /episode/6641 American Experience: The Abolitionists /episode-player/6641
Clinton
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The biography of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history, and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage.
Air date: 05/08/2012 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2195106954/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false The biography of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history, and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage. /episodes/get/673 /episode/673 American Experience: Clinton /episode-player/673