American Experience season 5

American Experience
Season 5
No. of episodes	12
Release
Original network	PBS
Original release	September 20, 1992 (1992-09-20) – March 1, 1993 (1993-03-01)
Season chronology
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List of episodes

Season five of the television program American Experience originally aired on the PBS network in the United States on September 20, 1992 and concluded on March 1, 1993. This is the fifth season to feature David McCullough as the host. The season contained 12 new episodes and began with the first part of The Kennedys film, "The Father, 1900–1961".

Episodes

See also: List of American Experience episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Categories	Original release date
57	1	"The Kennedys (Part 1)" [1]	James A. Devinney, David Espar, Marilyn H. Mellowes & Phillip Whitehead	Biographies, Politics, Presidents	September 20, 1992 (1992-09-20)
Part 1: "The Father, 1900–1961"
58	2	"The Kennedys (Part 2)"	David Espar & James A. Devinney	Biographies, Politics, Presidents	September 21, 1992 (1992-09-21)
Part 2: "The Sons, 1961–1980"
59	3	"The Donner Party" [2]	Ric Burns	The American West	October 28, 1992 (1992-10-28)
— [a]	4	"Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II"	William Miles & Nina Rosenblum	— [a]	November 11, 1992 (1992-11-11)
60	5	"George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King" [8]	David Sutherland	Biographies, Presidents	November 18, 1992 (1992-11-18)
61	6	"Last Stand at Little Big Horn" [9]	Paul Stekler	Native American History	November 25, 1992 (1992-11-25)
62	7	"If You Knew Sousa" [10]	Tom Spain	Popular Culture	December 9, 1992 (1992-12-09)
63	8	"Simple Justice" [11]	Helaine Head	Civil Rights	January 18, 1993 (1993-01-18)
The film dramatizes the struggle of Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall to achieve racial justice. The film is in part based on the book, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality , by Richard Kluger.
64	9	"Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish" [12]	Diane Garey & Lawrence Hott	Biographies	January 25, 1993 (1993-01-25)
65	10	"Sit Down and Fight" [13]	Charlotte Mitchell Zwerin	Biographies	February 1, 1993 (1993-02-01)
66	11	"Rachel Carson's Silent Spring" [14]	Neil Goodwin	The Natural Environment	February 8, 1993 (1993-02-08)
67	12	"Goin' Back to T–Town" [15]	Samuel D. Pollard & Joyce Vaughn	Biographies, Civil Rights	March 1, 1993 (1993-03-01)

Notes

1. The film episode Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II is not shown among an alphabetical listing of films on the American Experience series website. ^[3] However, the film aired as an American Experience installment on November 11, 1992. ^{[4] [5]} WNET later refuted the claim that the racially segregated all-black 761st Tank Battalion and 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion liberated the Nazi death camps Dachau and Buchenwald in April 1945. ^{[6] [7]}

References

1. "American Experience | The Kennedys". PBS. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
2. "American Experience | The Donner Party". PBS. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
3. "Alphabetical | Films: L". PBS. American Experience. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
4. O'Connor, John J. (November 11, 1992). "Review/Television; America's Black Army And a Dual War Front". The New York Times. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
5. Scott, Tony (November 10, 1992). "Review: 'The American Experience Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II'". Variety. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
6. "WNET Calls WWII Documentary 'Flawed' : Television: The Station Says 'Liberators,' Which Credited Black Battalions for Freeing Nazi Death Camps, Had Factual Errors. The Makers Reject the Findings". Los Angeles Times. September 9, 1993. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
7. Bernstein, Richard (March 1, 1993). "Doubts Mar PBS Film of Black Army Unit". The New York Times. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
8. "American Experience | George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King". PBS. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
9. "American Experience | Last Stand at Little Big Horn". PBS. Archived from the original on December 1, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
10. "American Experience | If You Knew Sousa". PBS. Archived from the original on October 8, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
11. "American Experience | Simple Justice". PBS. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
12. "American Experience | Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish". PBS. Archived from the original on June 5, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
13. "American Experience | Sit Down and Fight". PBS. Archived from the original on March 4, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
14. "American Experience | Rachel Carson's Silent Spring". PBS. Archived from the original on March 3, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
15. "American Experience | Goin' Back to T–Town". PBS. Retrieved August 26, 2022.