American Experience

(1988)•

6.6

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TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Seasons

399

Episodes

Returning Series

Status

October 4, 1988

First Aired

Season Ratings

1.0→9.5

IMDb

Networks: PBS

Genres: Documentary

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Season 1

16 episodes • 1988Avg: 6.8

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Great San Francisco Earthquake	Oct 4, 1988	6.5
2	Radio Bikini	Oct 11, 1988	0.0
3	Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo	Oct 18, 1988	0.0
4	Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream	Oct 25, 1988	0.0
5	The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter	Nov 1, 1988	0.0
6	Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?	Nov 8, 1988	7.0
7	Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close	Nov 15, 1988	0.0
8	Geronimo and the Apache Resistance	Nov 22, 1988	0.0
9	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited	Nov 29, 1988	0.0
10	That Rhythm, Those Blues	Dec 6, 1988	0.0
11	The Radio Priest	Dec 13, 1988	0.0
12	Hearts and Hands	Dec 20, 1988	0.0
13	Views of a Vanishing Frontier	Dec 27, 1988	0.0
14	Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings	Jan 3, 1989	0.0
15	The World That Moses Built	Jan 10, 1989	0.0
16	Sins of Our Mothers	Jan 17, 1989	0.0

Season 2

16 episodes • 1989

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Great Air Race of 1924	Oct 3, 1989
2	Demon Rum	Oct 10, 1989
3	A Family Gathering	Oct 17, 1989
4	The Great War: 1918	Oct 24, 1989
5	Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil	Oct 31, 1989
6	Forever Baseball	Nov 7, 1989
7	Mr. Sears' Catalogue	Nov 14, 1989
8	Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven	Nov 21, 1989
9	Adam Clayton Powell	Nov 28, 1989
10	Journey to America	Dec 5, 1989
11	Ballad of a Mountain Man	Dec 12, 1989
12	Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice	Dec 19, 1989
13	Orphans of the Storm	Dec 26, 1989
14	Forbidden City, USA	Jan 2, 1990
15	Battle for Wilderness	Jan 9, 1990
16	Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad	Jan 16, 1990

Season 3

13 episodes • 1990

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Lindbergh	Aug 27, 1990
2	Nixon (1): The Quest	Oct 15, 1990
3	Nixon (2): Triumph	Oct 15, 1990
4	Nixon (3): The Fall	Oct 15, 1990
5	God Bless America and Poland, Too	Oct 22, 1990
6	Insanity on Trial	Oct 29, 1990
7	The Satellite Sky	Nov 5, 1990
8	The Crash of 1929	Nov 19, 1990
9	The Iron Road	Nov 26, 1990
10	French Dance Tonight	Dec 10, 1990
11	After the Crash	Jan 7, 1991
12	Los Mineros	Jan 28, 1991
13	Coney Island	Feb 4, 1991

Season 4

13 episodes • 1991

#	Episode	Air Date
1	LBJ (1)	Sep 30, 1991
2	LBJ (2)	Sep 30, 1991
3	The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry	Oct 7, 1991
4	Scandalous Mayor	Oct 28, 1991
5	The Johnstown Flood	Nov 4, 1991
6	Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance	Nov 11, 1991
7	G-Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover	Feb 24, 1992
8	Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo	Dec 9, 1991
9	The Quiz Show Scandal	Jan 6, 1992
10	Love in the Cold War	Jan 13, 1992
11	Wild by Law	Feb 10, 1992
12	Barnum's Big Top	Oct 14, 1991
13	In the White Man's Image	Feb 17, 1992

Season 5

13 episodes • 1992

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Kennedys (1): The Father, 1900-61	Sep 20, 1992
2	The Kennedys (2): The Sons, 1961-80	Sep 21, 1992
3	The Donner Party	Oct 28, 1992
4	Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II	Nov 4, 1992
5	George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King	Nov 18, 1992
6	Last Stand at Little Big Horn	Nov 25, 1992
7	If You Knew Sousa	Jan 11, 1993
8	Simple Justice	Jan 18, 1993
9	Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish	Feb 8, 1993
10	Sit Down And Fight	Feb 1, 1993
11	Rachel Carson's Silent Spring	Feb 15, 1993
12	Goin' Back to T-Town	Mar 1, 1993
20	Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian	Dec 2, 1992

Season 6

8 episodes • 1993

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage	Oct 27, 1993
2	The Hunt for Pancho Villa	Nov 8, 1993
3	Ike (1): Soldier	Nov 10, 1993
4	Ike (2): Statesman	Nov 10, 1993
5	Malcolm X: Make It Plain	Jan 26, 1994
6	America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference	Apr 6, 1994
7	D-Day Remembered	May 25, 1994
8	The Hurricane of '38	Nov 17, 1993

Season 7

13 episodes • 1994

#	Episode	Air Date
1	FDR (1): The Center of the World (1882-1921)	Oct 12, 1994
2	FDR (2): Fear Itself (1922-1933)	Oct 12, 1992
3	FDR (3): The Grandest Job in the World (1933-1940)	Oct 13, 1994
4	FDR (4): The Juggler (1940-1945)	Oct 13, 1994
5	Telegrams from the Dead	Oct 19, 1994
6	Midnight Ramble	Oct 26, 1994
7	Battle of the Bulge	Nov 9, 1994
10	One Woman, One Vote (1)	Jan 23, 1995
11	One Woman, One Vote (2)	Jan 30, 1995
12	The Way West (1): Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1845-1864)	May 8, 1995
13	The Way West (2): The Approach of Civilization (1865-1869)	May 9, 1995
14	The Way West (3): The War for the Black Hills (1870-1876)	May 16, 1995
15	The Way West (4): Ghost Dance (1877-1893)	May 17, 1995

Season 8

9 episodes • 1995

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Murder of the Century	Oct 16, 1995
2	Edison's Miracle of Light	Oct 23, 1995
3	Chicago 1968	Nov 13, 1995
4	The Orphan Trains	Nov 27, 1995
5	Freedom on My Mind	Jan 15, 1996
6	Daley: The Last Boss	Jan 22, 1996
7	The Battle Over Citizen Kane	Jan 29, 1996
8	The Wright Stuff	Feb 12, 1996
9	Spy in the Sky	Feb 26, 1996

Season 9

22 episodes • 1996

#	Episode	Air Date
1	T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (1): The Long Campaign	Oct 6, 1996
2	T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (2): The Bully Pulpit	Oct 6, 1996
3	The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie	Jan 20, 1997
4	Hawaii's Last Queen	Jan 27, 1997
5	The Telephone	Feb 3, 1997
6	Big Dream, Small Screen	Feb 10, 1997
7	New York Underground	Feb 17, 1997
8	Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern	Apr 14, 1997
9	Around the World in 72 Days	Apr 28, 1997
10	Gold Fever	May 12, 1997
11	Vietnam: A Television History (Part 1 & 2)	May 26, 1997
12	Vietnam: A Television History (3): LBJ Goes to War	Jun 2, 1997
13	Vietnam: A Television History (4): America Takes Charge	Jun 9, 1997
14	Vietnam: A Television History (5): America's Enemy	Jun 16, 1997
15	Vietnam: A Television History (6): Tet 1968	Jun 23, 1997
16	Vietnam: A Television History (7): Vietnamizing the War	Jun 30, 1997
17	Vietnam: A Television History (8): Cambodia and Laos	Jul 7, 1997
18	Vietnam: A Television History (9): Peace is at Hand	Jul 14, 1997
19	Vietnam: A Television History (10): Homefront USA	Jul 21, 1997
20	Vietnam: A Television History (11): The End of the Tunnel	Jul 28, 1997
30	T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (3): The Good Fight	Oct 7, 1996
31	T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (4): Black Care	Oct 7, 1996

Season 10

9 episodes • 1997

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Truman (1): An Accident of Democracy	Oct 5, 1997
2	Truman (2): The Moon, the Stars and All the Planets	Oct 6, 1997
3	A Midwife's Tale	Jan 19, 1998
4	Mr. Miami Beach	Feb 2, 1998
5	Influenza 1918	Feb 9, 1998
6	Reagan (1): Lifeguard	Feb 23, 1998
7	Reagan (2): An American Crusade	Feb 24, 1998
8	Surviving the Dust Bowl	Mar 2, 1998
9	Riding the Rails	Apr 13, 1998

Season 11

10 episodes • 1998

#	Episode	Air Date
1	America 1900	Nov 18, 1998
2	Race for the Superbomb	Jan 11, 1999
3	Hoover Dam	Jan 18, 1999
4	Alone on the Ice	Feb 8, 1999
5	Rescue at Sea	Feb 15, 1999
6	Meltdown at Three Mile Island	Feb 22, 1999
7	Lost in the Grand Canyon	Apr 5, 1999
8	MacArthur (1): Destiny	May 17, 1999
9	MacArthur (2): The Politics of War	May 18, 1999
10	Fly Girls	May 24, 1999

Season 12

15 episodes • 1999Avg: 7.0

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	New York (1): The Country and the City	Nov 14, 1999	0.0
2	New York (2): Order and Disorder	Nov 15, 1999	0.0
3	New York (3): Sunshine and Shadow	Nov 16, 1999	0.0
4	New York (4): The Power and the People	Nov 17, 1999	0.0
5	New York (5): Cosmopolis	Nov 18, 1999	0.0
6	Eleanor Roosevelt	Jan 10, 2000	0.0
7	Houdini	Jan 24, 2000	0.0
8	Nixon's China Game	Jan 31, 2000	0.0
9	The Duel	Feb 14, 2000	7.0
10	John Brown's Holy War	Feb 28, 2000	0.0
11	George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (1)	Apr 23, 2000	0.0
12	George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (2)	Apr 24, 2000	0.0
13	Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory	May 1, 2000	0.0
14	Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life	May 8, 2000	0.0
15	The Wizard of Photography	May 23, 2000	0.0

Season 13

12 episodes • 2000

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Rockefellers (1)	Oct 17, 2000
2	The Rockefellers (2)	Oct 24, 2000
3	Secrets of a Master Builder	Oct 30, 2000
4	Return with Honor	Nov 13, 2000
5	Streamliners: America's Last Trains	Feb 5, 2001
6	Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind	Feb 12, 2001
7	Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part I	Feb 19, 2001
8	Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part II	Feb 20, 2001
9	Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part III	Feb 21, 2001
10	Scottsboro: An American Tragedy	Apr 2, 2001
11	Fatal Flood	Apr 16, 2001
12	Stephen Foster	Apr 23, 2001

Season 14

14 episodes • 2001

#	Episode	Air Date
1	New York (6): The City of Tomorrow	Sep 10, 2001
2	New York (7): The City and the World	Sep 17, 2001
3	War Letters	Nov 1, 2001
4	Woodrow Wilson (1): A Passionate Man	Jan 6, 2002
5	Woodrow Wilson (2): The Redemption of the World	Jan 13, 2002
6	Mount Rushmore	Jan 20, 2002
7	Miss America	Jan 27, 2002
8	Zoot Suit Riots	Mar 1, 2002
9	Monkey Trial	Feb 23, 2002
10	Public Enemy #1	Feb 17, 2002
11	Ansel Adams	Apr 21, 2002
12	A Brilliant Madness	Apr 28, 2002
13	Ulysses S. Grant (1): The Warrior	Apr 1, 2002
14	Ulysses S. Grant (2): The President	Apr 2, 2002

Season 15

13 episodes • 2002

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Jimmy Carter (1): Jimmy Who?	Nov 11, 2002
2	Jimmy Carter (2): Hostage	Nov 12, 2002
3	Chicago: City of the Century (1): Mudhole to Metropolis	Jan 13, 2003
4	Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun	Jan 14, 2003
5	Chicago: City of the Century (3): Battle for Chicago	Jan 15, 2003
6	The Murder of Emmett Till	Jan 20, 2003
7	Transcontinental Railroad	Jan 27, 2003
8	Partners of the Heart	Feb 10, 2003
9	The Pill	Feb 24, 2003
10	Daughter from Danang	Apr 7, 2003
11	Seabiscuit	Apr 21, 2003
12	Bataan Rescue	Jul 7, 2003
13	Murder at Harvard	Jul 14, 2003

Season 16

9 episodes • 2003

#	Episode	Air Date
1	New York (8): The Center of the World	Sep 8, 2003
2	Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (1): Revolution	Jan 12, 2004
3	Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2): Retreat	Jan 13, 2004
4	Citizen King	Jan 19, 2004
5	Remember the Alamo	Feb 2, 2004
6	Tupperware!	Feb 9, 2004
7	Emma Goldman	Apr 12, 2004
8	Patriots Day	Apr 19, 2004
9	Golden Gate Bridge	May 3, 2004

Season 17

11 episodes • 2004Avg: 4.9

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	RFK (Part 1 & 2)	Oct 4, 2004	5.5
2	The Fight	Jan 24, 2005	1.0
3	Fidel Castro	Jan 31, 2005	1.0
4	Building the Alaska Highway	Feb 7, 2005	0.0
5	Kinsey	Feb 14, 2005	8.0
6	Mary Pickford	Apr 4, 2005	0.0
7	The Great Transatlantic Cable	Apr 11, 2005	0.0
8	The Massie Affair	Apr 18, 2005	0.0
9	Victory in the Pacific	May 2, 2005	9.0
10	The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?	May 9, 2005	0.0
11	Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst	May 23, 2005	0.0

Season 18

13 episodes • 2005

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Two Days in October	Oct 17, 2005
2	Race to the Moon	Oct 31, 2005
3	Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (1): Sin City	Nov 14, 2005
4	Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (2): American Mecca	Nov 15, 2005
5	John and Abigail Adams	Jan 23, 2006
6	The Nuremberg Trials	Jan 30, 2006
7	Jesse James	Feb 6, 2006
8	Hijacked	Feb 25, 2006
9	Eugene O'Neill	Mar 21, 2006
10	The Boy in the Bubble	Apr 10, 2006
11	The Alaska Pipeline	Apr 24, 2006
12	Annie Oakley	May 8, 2006
13	The Man Behind Hitler	May 22, 2006

Season 19

15 episodes • 2006

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Eyes on the Prize (1 & 2): Awakenings 1954-1956 / Fighting Back 1957-1962	Oct 2, 2006
2	Eyes on the Prize (3 & 4): Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961/No Easy Walk 1961-1963	Oct 9, 2006
3	Eyes on the Prize (5 & 6): Is This America? 1963-1964 / Bridge to Freedom 1965	Oct 16, 2006
4	Test Tube Babies	Oct 23, 2006
5	The Great Fever	Oct 30, 2006
6	The Gold Rush	Nov 6, 2006
7	The Berlin Airlift	Jan 29, 2007
8	The Living Weapon	Feb 5, 2007
9	New Orleans (1 & 2)	Feb 12, 2007
10	Sister Aimee	Apr 2, 2007
11	Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple	Apr 9, 2007
12	Summer of Love	Apr 23, 2007
13	The Mormons (1): History	Apr 30, 2007
14	The Mormons (2): Church and State	May 1, 2007
15	Alexander Hamilton	May 14, 2007

Season 20

14 episodes • 2008Avg: 9.5

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Oswald's Ghost	Jan 14, 2008	0.0
2	The Lobotomist	Jan 21, 2008	9.0
3	Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies	Feb 3, 2008	0.0
4	Grand Central	Feb 4, 2008	0.0
5	Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land	Feb 10, 2008	0.0
6	Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?	Feb 17, 2008	0.0
7	Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement	Feb 24, 2008	0.0
8	Kit Carson	Feb 18, 2008	0.0
9	Buffalo Bill	Feb 25, 2008	0.0
10	Minik: The Lost Eskimo	Mar 31, 2009	0.0
11	Walt Whitman	Apr 14, 2008	10.0
12	Roberto Clemente	Apr 21, 2008	0.0
13	George H.W. Bush (1)	May 5, 2008	0.0
14	George H.W. Bush (2)	May 6, 2008	0.0

Season 21

9 episodes • 2009

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer	Jan 26, 2009
2	The Polio Crusade	Feb 2, 2009
3	The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln	Feb 9, 2009
4	A Class Apart	Feb 23, 2009
5	We Shall Remain (1): After the Mayflower	Apr 13, 2009
6	We Shall Remain (2): Tecumseh's Vision	Apr 20, 2009
7	We Shall Remain (3): Trail of Tears	Apr 27, 2009
8	We Shall Remain (4): Geronimo	May 4, 2009
9	We Shall Remain (5): Wounded Knee	May 11, 2009

Season 22

8 episodes • 2009

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Civilian Conservation Corps	Nov 2, 2009
2	Wyatt Earp	Jan 25, 2010
3	The Bombing of Germany	Feb 8, 2010
4	Dolley Madison	Mar 1, 2010
5	Earth Days	Apr 19, 2010
6	My Lai	Apr 26, 2010
7	Roads to Memphis	May 3, 2010
8	Into the Deep: America, Whaling and the World	May 10, 2010

Season 23

12 episodes • 2010Avg: 9.3Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	God in America (Parts 1–2)	Oct 11, 2010	0.0
2	God in America (Parts 3-4)	Oct 12, 2010	0.0
3	God in America (Parts 5-6)	Oct 13, 2010	10.0
4	Robert E. Lee	Jan 3, 2011	10.0
5	Dinosaur Wars	Jan 17, 2011	0.0
6	Panama Canal	Jan 24, 2011	0.0
7	The Greely Expedition	Jan 31, 2011	0.0
8	Triangle Fire	Feb 28, 2011	0.0
9	The Great Famine	Apr 11, 2011	0.0
10	Stonewall Uprising	Apr 25, 2011	0.0
11	Soundtrack for a Revolution	May 9, 2011	0.0
12	Freedom Riders	May 16, 2011	8.0

Season 24

8 episodes • 2012Avg: 8.0Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Billy the Kid	Jan 10, 2012	0.0
2	Custer's Last Stand	Jan 17, 2012	8.0
3	Clinton: The Comeback Kid (1)	Feb 20, 2012	0.0
4	Clinton: The Survivor (2)	Feb 21, 2012	8.0
5	The Amish	Feb 28, 2012	0.0
6	Grand Coulee Dam	Apr 3, 2012	0.0
7	Jesse Owens	May 1, 2012	0.0
8	Death and the Civil War	Sep 18, 2012	0.0

Season 25

8 episodes • 2013Avg: 7.2Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Abolitionists: 1820s-1838	Jan 8, 2013	7.0
2	The Abolitionists: 1838-1854	Jan 15, 2013	0.0
3	The Abolitionists: 1854-Emancipation and Victory	Jan 22, 2013	0.0
4	Henry Ford	Jan 29, 2013	0.0
5	Silicon Valley	Feb 5, 2013	7.0
6	War of the Worlds	Oct 29, 2013	7.6
7	JFK (Part 1)	Nov 11, 2013	0.0
8	JFK (Part 2)	Nov 12, 2013	0.0

Season 26

7 episodes • 2014Avg: 6.3

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Poisoner's Handbook	Jan 7, 2014	5.5
2	1964	Jan 14, 2014	0.0
3	The Amish: Shunned	Feb 4, 2014	7.0
4	Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid	Feb 11, 2014	0.0
5	The Rise and Fall of Penn Station	Feb 18, 2014	0.0
6	Freedom Summer	Jun 24, 2014	0.0
7	Cold War Roadshow	Nov 18, 2014	0.0

Season 27

11 episodes • 2015Avg: 6.0

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Ripley: Believe It or Not	Jan 6, 2015	8.0
2	Klansville, USA	Jan 13, 2015	1.0
3	Edison	Jan 27, 2015	0.0
4	The Big Burn	Feb 3, 2015	0.0
5	The Forgotten Plague	Feb 10, 2015	0.0
6	Last Days In Vietnam	Apr 28, 2015	0.0
7	Blackout	Jul 14, 2015	7.0
8	Walt Disney (1)	Sep 14, 2015	0.0
9	Walt Disney (2)	Sep 15, 2015	0.0
10	American Comandante	Nov 17, 2015	0.0
11	The Pilgrims	Nov 24, 2015	8.0

Season 28

8 episodes • 2016Avg: 7.2

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Bonnie & Clyde	Jan 19, 2016	8.5
2	The Mine Wars	Jan 26, 2016	5.0
3	Murder of a President	Feb 2, 2016	7.2
4	The Perfect Crime	Feb 9, 2016	0.0
5	Space Men	Mar 1, 2016	0.0
6	The Boys of '36	Aug 2, 2016	8.0
7	Tesla	Oct 18, 2016	0.0
8	The Battle of Chosin	Nov 1, 2016	0.0

Season 29

8 episodes • 2017Avg: 4.8

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Command and Control	Jan 10, 2017	6.8
2	Rachel Carson	Jan 24, 2017	6.2
3	The Race Underground	Jan 31, 2017	5.5
4	Oklahoma City	Feb 7, 2017	5.5
5	Ruby Ridge	Feb 14, 2017	7.0
6	The Great War: Part 1	Apr 10, 2017	5.0
7	The Great War: Part 2	Apr 11, 2017	1.0
8	The Great War: Part 3	Apr 12, 2017	1.0

Season 30

9 episodes • 2018Avg: 7.8

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Into the Amazon	Jan 9, 2018	10.0
2	The Secret of Tuxedo Park	Jan 16, 2018	10.0
3	The Gilded Age	Feb 6, 2018	10.0
4	The Bombing of Wall Street	Feb 13, 2018	10.0
5	The Island Murder	Apr 17, 2018	4.0
6	The Chinese Exclusion Act	May 29, 2018	3.2
7	The Circus (1)	Oct 8, 2018	10.0
8	The Circus (2)	Oct 9, 2018	10.0
9	The Eugenics Crusade	Oct 16, 2018	3.2

Season 31

7 episodes • 2019Avg: 8.5

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Swamp	Jan 15, 2019	8.0
2	Sealab	Feb 12, 2019	7.0
3	Chasing the Moon - A Place Beyond the Sky	Jul 8, 2019	9.7
4	Chasing the Moon - Earthrise	Jul 9, 2019	10.0
5	Chasing the Moon - Magnificent Desolation	Jul 10, 2019	10.0
6	Woodstock	Aug 6, 2019	6.8
7	The Feud	Sep 10, 2019	8.0

Season 32

8 episodes • 2020Avg: 3.4Valley of Despair

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	McCarthy	Jan 6, 2020	4.0
2	The Poison Squad	Jan 28, 2020	3.2
3	The Man Who Tried to Feed The World	Apr 21, 2020	4.0
4	George W. Bush (Part 1)	May 4, 2020	2.8
5	George W. Bush (Part 2)	May 5, 2020	2.8
6	Mr. Tornado	May 19, 2020	3.3
7	The Vote (Part 1)	Jul 6, 2020	3.7
8	The Vote (Part 2)	Jul 7, 2020	3.7

Season 33

8 episodes • 2021Avg: 2.5Valley of Despair

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Codebreaker	Jan 11, 2021	3.0
2	Voice of Freedom	Feb 15, 2021	2.3
3	The Blinding of Isaac Woodard	Mar 30, 2021	2.3
4	American Oz	Apr 19, 2021	3.0
5	Billy Graham	May 17, 2021	2.4
6	Sandra Day O'Connor: The First	Sep 13, 2021	2.3
7	Citizen Hearst (1)	Sep 27, 2021	2.5
8	Citizen Hearst (2)	Sep 28, 2021	2.5

Season 34

6 episodes • 2022Avg: 2.9Valley of Despair

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Riveted: The History of Jeans	Feb 7, 2022	3.5
2	The American Diplomat	Feb 15, 2022	2.5
3	Flood in the Desert	May 3, 2022	3.2
4	Plague at the Golden Gate	May 24, 2022	3.2
5	Taken Hostage (1)	Nov 14, 2022	2.6
6	Taken Hostage (2)	Nov 15, 2022	2.5

Season 35

9 episodes • 2023Avg: 2.6Valley of Despair

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Lie Detector	Jan 3, 2023	2.8
2	Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space	Jan 17, 2023	2.3
3	Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History	Feb 20, 2023	2.5
4	The Movement and the "Madman"	Mar 28, 2023	2.5
5	The Sun Queen	Apr 4, 2023	2.3
6	Casa Susanna	Jun 27, 2023	2.3
7	The Busing Battleground	Sep 11, 2023	2.5
8	The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools	Sep 12, 2023	2.3
9	The War on Disco	Oct 30, 2023	4.0

Season 36

7 episodes • 2024Avg: 2.5Valley of Despair

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Nazi Town, USA	Jan 23, 2024	3.2
2	Fly With Me	Feb 20, 2024	2.3
3	The Cancer Detectives	Mar 26, 2024	2.3
4	Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal	Apr 22, 2024	2.5
5	The Riot Report	May 21, 2024	2.3
6	The American Vice President	Oct 1, 2024	2.3
7	American Coup: Wilmington 1898	Nov 12, 2024	2.3

Season 37

8 episodes • 2025Avg: 3.0Valley of Despair

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Forgotten Hero: Walter White and The NAACP	Feb 24, 2025	2.3
2	Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act	Mar 24, 2025	2.3
3	Mr. Polaroid	Mar 31, 2025	6.0
4	Clearing the Air: The War on Smog	Aug 26, 2025	2.8
5	Hard Hat Riot	Sep 30, 2025	2.5
6	Kissinger (1): The Necessity of Power	Oct 27, 2025	2.5
7	Kissinger (2): The Opportunist	Oct 28, 2025	2.3
8	Bombshell	Jan 6, 2026	0.0

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Season 38

1 episodes • 2026Avg: 1.0Valley of Despair

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Bombshell	Jan 6, 2026	1.0

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