American Experience Explained

Genre:Television documentary
Creator:Peter McGhee
Country:United States
Language:English (US)
Num Seasons:35
Num Episodes:366
List Episodes:List of American Experience episodes
Runtime:Between 55 minutes and two hours
Company:WGBH-TV
Network:PBS[1]

American Experience is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards,[2] about important or interesting events and people in American history.

The series premiered on October 4, 1988, and was originally titled The American Experience, but the definite article was later dropped during a rebrand and image update. The show has had a presence on the internet since 1995, and more than 100 American Experience programs are accompanied by their own internet websites, which provide background information on the subjects covered as well as teachers' guides and educational companion materials.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Broadcast Schedule American Experience WGBH . PBS . 2014-05-27.
  2. Web site: About the Series . American Experience . WGBH. PBS. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304210802/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/about/award/broadcast. March 4, 2016. dead.
  3. Web site: American Experience . PBS. October 23, 2012. November 14, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121114112715/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/series/index.html. dead.
  4. Web site: Best of This Week . Mcnatt . Glenn . January 13, 2008. The Baltimore Sun. en-US. December 13, 2019.
  5. Web site: Johnson . Steve . October 22, 2008 . TV can be good for you . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180916051546/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-10-22-0810210307-story.html . 2018-09-16 . 2022-05-25 . Chicago Tribune.
  6. Web site: American Experience: The Presidents Collection. Amazon.com. 26 August 2008. Amazon.com, Inc.. July 12, 2020.
  7. Web site: American Experience: The Presidents. Amazon.com. 28 August 2012. Amazon.com, Inc.. July 12, 2020.
  8. Web site: We Shall Remain: America Through Native Eyes. Amazon.com. 12 May 2009. Amazon.com, Inc.. July 12, 2020.
  9. Web site: American Experience | Who We Are|publisher=Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)]|access-date=October 23, 2012}} The show is produced primarily by WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, though occasionally in the early seasons it was co-produced by other PBS stations such as WNET (Channel 13) in New York City.

    Some programs considered part of the American Experience collection were produced prior to the creation of the series. was one of them, airing originally in 1983 after taking six years to assemble.[3] Also, in 2006, American Experience rebroadcast Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, the first half of the 1986 documentary series about the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

    Episodes

    See main article: List of American Experience episodes.

    Critical reception

    American Experience has received generally positive reviews from television critics and parents of young children. Glenn McNatt of The Baltimore Sun wrote that it is "TV's finest history series ever."[4] Steve Johnson of Chicago Tribune wrote, "History comes alive in excellent docu-series."[5]

    Home media

    A DVD boxset collecting episodes about United States presidents was released on August 26, 2008.[6] The collection was updated to include the documentary on Bill Clinton's presidency on August 28, 2012.[7]

    A DVD boxset for the five-part documentary We Shall Remain was released on May 12, 2009.[8]

    Awards

    See main article: List of awards and nominations received by American Experience.

    External links

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