American Experience

Reviews

American Experience: The Polio Crusade

An insidious virus, a race for a vaccine, human experimentation -- the subgenre this documentary brings to mind is the increasingly popular bio-thriller. [10 March 2009]

American Experience: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer’s inability to influence people would come to haunt him, and shape the nuclear policy of the world in ways that still reverberate through today’s headlines. [6 March 2009]

American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln's funeral train route and Booth's desperate efforts to escape. [9 February 2009]

American Experience: Roberto Clemente

Clemente was a brilliant ballplayer, but also conflicted and complicated, as demonstrated in Bernardo Ruiz's documentary, Roberto Clemente. [21 April 2008]

American Experience: Walt Whitman

Like its subject, Mark Zwonitzer's Walt Whitman is grand and particular. [15 April 2008]