American Experience: Season 28

Mine Wars

The Pilgrims

2h - Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th century is a seminal, if often misunderstood episode of American and world history. The Pilgrims explores the forces, circumstances, personalities and events that converged to exile the English group in Holland and eventually propel their crossing to the New World; a story universally familiar in broad outline, but almost entirely unfamiliar to a general audience in its rich and compelling historical actuality. Includes the real history of the "first thanksgiving".

Space Men

The Boys of '36

53min - Nine boys from the University of Washington took the nation by storm when their crew team captured the gold medal at the 1936 Olympics. The boy's victory inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.

The Perfect Crime

53min - Set in 1920s Chicago, this is the story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb--wealthy college students who had planned to abduct and kill a child at random to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.