American Experience | |
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Season 17 | |
No. of episodes | 11 |
Release | |
Original network | PBS |
Original release | October 4, 2004 May 23, 2005 | โ
Season chronology | |
Season seventeen of the television program American Experience originally aired on the PBS network in the United States on October 4, 2004 and concluded on May 23, 2005. The season contained 11 new episodes and began with the film RFK.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Categories | Original air date | |
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195 | 1 | "RFK"[1] | David Grubin | Biographies, Politics | October 4, 2004 | |
196 | 2 | "The Fight"[2] | Barak Goodman | Biographies, Civil Rights, Popular Culture | October 18, 2004 | |
The film chronicles the boxing matches between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling. | ||||||
197 | 3 | "Fidel Castro"[3] | Adriana Bosch | Biographies | January 31, 2005 | |
198 | 4 | "Building the Alaska Highway"[4] | Tracy Heather Strain | Technology, War | February 7, 2005 | |
199 | 5 | "Kinsey"[5] | Barak Goodman & John Maggio | Biographies, Popular Culture | February 14, 2005 | |
200 | 6 | "Mary Pickford"[6] | Sue Williams | Biographies, Popular Culture | April 4, 2005 | |
201 | 7 | "The Great Transatlantic Cable"[7] | Peter Jones | Technology | April 11, 2005 | |
202 | 8 | "The Massie Affair"[8] | Mark Zwonitzer | Popular Culture | April 18, 2005 | |
Note: The episode reaired on April 17, 2018 as "The Island Murder". | ||||||
203 | 9 | "Victory in the Pacific"[9] | Austin Hoyt | War | May 2, 2005 | |
204 | 10 | "The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken"[10] | Kathy Conkwright | Biographies, Popular Culture | May 9, 2005 | |
Recounts the successes and failures of A. P. Carter and his singing partners known as the Carter Family. During the Great Depression, they became the first vocal group to become country music stars. | ||||||
205 | 11 | "Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst"[11] | Robert Stone | Politics, Popular Culture | May 23, 2005 |