The BEST episodes directed by Chana Gazit
#1 - Surviving the Dust Bowl
American Experience - Season 10 - Episode 9
The story of the farmers who came to the Southern Plains of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas dreaming of prosperity, and lived through ten years of drought, dust, disease and death.
#2 - The Forgotten Plague
American Experience - Season 27 - Episode 6
By the dawn of the 19th century, the most deadly killer in human history, tuberculosis, had killed one in seven of all the people who had ever lived. Throughout the 1800s, the disease struck America with a vengeance, ravaging communities and touching the lives of almost every family. The battle against the deadly bacteria had a profound and lasting impact on America. It shaped medical and scientific pursuits, social habits, economic development, western expansion, and government policy. Yet both the disease and its impact are poorly understood; in the words of one writer, tuberculosis is our "forgotten plague."
#3 - Meltdown at Three Mile Island
American Experience - Season 11 - Episode 9
An account of the causes of the partial core meltdown at the Pennsylvania nuclear power plant in 1979 and the reactions of staff and the public.
#4 - Fatal Flood
American Experience - Season 13 - Episode 14
A story of the flooding of the Mississippi River in 1927 and how it exposed social and racial problems beyond the natural disaster itself.
#5 - The Pill
American Experience - Season 15 - Episode 9
The discoveries that led to the birth control pill and its subsequent impact on American women.
#6 - Test Tube Babies
American Experience - Season 19 - Episode 7
Science enables advances in reproduction and the establishment of a new medical industry, but often not one as successful as people imagine.