American Experience | |
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Season 8 | |
No. of episodes | 9 |
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Original network | PBS |
Original release | October 16, 1995 – February 26, 1996 |
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Season eight of the television program American Experience originally aired on the PBS network in the United States on October 16, 1995 and concluded on February 26, 1996. This is the eighth season to feature David McCullough as the host. The season contained nine new episodes and began with the film Murder of the Century.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Categories | Original air date | |
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84 | 1 | "Murder of the Century" [1] | Carl Charlson | Popular Culture | October 16, 1995 | |
A film about the 1906 murder of architect Stanford White by wealthy heir Harry Kendall Thaw over singer and model Evelyn Nesbit. | ||||||
85 | 2 | "Edison's Miracle of Light" [2] | John Walter | Biographies, Technology | October 23, 1995 | |
86 | 3 | "Chicago 1968" [3] | Chana Gazit | Politics, Popular Culture | November 13, 1995 | |
The film examines the protest activity surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. | ||||||
87 | 4 | "The Orphan Trains" [4] | Janet Graham & Edward Gray | Popular Culture | November 27, 1995 | |
88 | 5 | "Freedom on My Mind" [5] | Connie Field & Marilyn Mulford | Civil Rights | January 15, 1996 | |
89 | 6 | "Daley: The Last Boss" [6] | Barak Goodman | Biographies, Politics | January 22, 1996 | |
90 | 7 | "The Battle Over Citizen Kane" [7] | Michael Epstein & Thomas Lennon | Popular Culture | January 29, 1996 | |
91 | 8 | "The Wright Stuff" [8] | Nancy Porter | Biographies, Technology | February 12, 1996 | |
92 | 9 | "Spy in the Sky" [9] | Linda Garmon | Technology, War | February 26, 1996 | |
The film chronicles the 1960 U-2 incident that involved CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers whose Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace during the Cold War. |
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