Season episodes list 17

S17E01

S17E01 : RFK (aired on 10/04/2004)

After an assassin's bullet took his brother's life, Robert F. Kennedy was bereft, not only of…
S17E02

S17E02 : The Fight (aired on 10/18/2004)

The 1938 fight between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and the political and social ideologies the…
S17E03

S17E03 : Fidel Castro (aired on 01/31/2005)

The rise of communist rule in Cuba and Castro's long era of leadership.
S17E04

S17E04 : Building the Alaska Highway (aired on 02/07/2005)

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents Building the Alaska Highway, the story of nearly 11,000 Army…
S17E05

S17E05 : Kinsey (aired on 02/14/2005)

The startling and controversial findings of a biologist who sought to understand the range of human…
S17E06

S17E06 : Mary Pickford (aired on 04/04/2005)

The life and career of one of the first "superstars" of the American screen.
S17E07

S17E07 : The Great Transatlantic Cable (aired on 04/11/2005)

America lays a telegraph cable across the Atlantic and enables almost-instant communication with…
S17E08

S17E08 : The Massie Affair (aired on 04/18/2005)

Racial anger erupts in Hawaii after five non-White men are wrongly accused of raping a Navy wife in…
S17E09

S17E09 : Victory in the Pacific (aired on 05/02/2005)

How the end of World War II in the Pacific Theater affected Americans and Japanese.
S17E10

S17E10 : The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken (aired on 05/09/2005)

The genesis of one of America's most influential performing families and the struggles to keep the…
S17E11

S17E11 : Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (aired on 05/23/2005)

The kidnapping of the heiress and her later sympathies to the cause of her captors.