American Experience season 5
Season of television series
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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
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Categories | Original release date | |
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| 57 | 1 | "The Kennedys (Part 1)"[1] | James A. Devinney, David Espar, Marilyn H. Mellowes & Phillip Whitehead | Biographies, Politics, Presidents | September 20, 1992 | |
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| 58 | 2 | "The Kennedys (Part 2)" | David Espar & James A. Devinney | Biographies, Politics, Presidents | September 21, 1992 | |
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| 59 | 3 | "The Donner Party"[2] | Ric Burns | The American West | October 28, 1992 | |
| —[a] | 4 | "Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II" | William Miles & Nina Rosenblum | —[a] | November 11, 1992 | |
| 60 | 5 | "George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King"[8] | David Sutherland | Biographies, Presidents | November 18, 1992 | |
| 61 | 6 | "Last Stand at Little Big Horn"[9] | Paul Stekler | Native American History | November 25, 1992 | |
| 62 | 7 | "If You Knew Sousa"[10] | Tom Spain | Popular Culture | December 9, 1992 | |
| 63 | 8 | "Simple Justice"[11] | Helaine Head | Civil Rights | January 18, 1993 | |
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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 | |
| 65 | 10 | "Sit Down and Fight"[13] | Charlotte Mitchell Zwerin | Biographies | February 1, 1993 | |
| 66 | 11 | "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring"[14] | Neil Goodwin | The Natural Environment | February 8, 1993 | |
| 67 | 12 | "Goin' Back to T–Town"[15] | Samuel D. Pollard & Joyce Vaughn | Biographies, Civil Rights | March 1, 1993 | |
Notes
- 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]