The BEST episodes directed by John Maggio
#1 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
American Experience - Season 26 - Episode 7
Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, better known as Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, form the Wild Bunch gang and pull off the longest string of holdups in history.
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American Experience - Season 24 - Episode 1
A fascinating look at the myth and the man behind it, who, in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny orphan boy to the most feared man in the West and an enduring western icon.
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#3 - The Boy in the Bubble
American Experience - Season 18 - Episode 10
Account of David Vetter, a boy with an immune system so compromised that he led a life of isolation in a sealed enclosure.
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#4 - Bonnie & Clyde
American Experience - Season 28 - Episode 5
Though their exploits were romanticized, the Barrow gang was believed responsible for at least 13 murders, including nine law enforcement officers, as well as numerous robberies and kidnappings. Discover the true story of the most famous outlaw couple in U.S. history -- Bonnie and Clyde.
#5 - Into the Amazon
American Experience - Season 30 - Episode 1
The remarkable story of President Theodore Roosevelt’s journey with legendary Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon.
#6 - The Lobotomist
American Experience - Season 20 - Episode 2
A look at the controversial work of Walter Freeman, a neurosurgeon who sought to alleviate severe mental disorder by permanently disabling the brain's frontal lobes.
#7 - Kinsey
American Experience - Season 17 - Episode 5
The startling and controversial findings of a biologist who sought to understand the range of human sexual relations.
#8 - Korea: The Never-Ending War
PBS Specials - Season 2019 - Episode 7
Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and narrated by Korean-American actor John Cho — confronts the myth of the “Forgotten War,” documenting the post-1953 conflict and global consequences.
#9 - The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
HBO Documentary Film Series - Season 2017 - Episode 17
Sometimes referred to as the country’s “most dangerous editor,” Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee was largely credited with taking down President Richard Nixon in 1974 after the Post broke the Watergate story, exposing the largest political scandal in American history. Told primarily in his own words, The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee is an intimate portrait of this formidable man, tracing his remarkable ascent from a young Boston boy stricken with polio to the one of the most pioneering and consequential journalistic figures of the 20th century.