The BEST episodes directed by Robert Kenner
#1 - Influenza 1918
American Experience - Season 10 - Episode 6
The worst epidemic in American history killed over 600,000 Americans during World War I. Nicknamed "Spanish influenza," it died out quickly the following winter.
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American Experience - Season 29 - Episode 3
A chilling nightmare plays out at a Titan II missile complex in Arkansas in September, 1980. A worker accidentally drops a socket, puncturing the fuel tank of an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead in our arsenal, an incident which ignites a series of feverish efforts to avoid a deadly disaster.
#3 - John Brown's Holy War
American Experience - Season 12 - Episode 10
Rise and fall of the volatile and sometimes violent abolitionist.
#4 - War Letters
American Experience - Season 14 - Episode 3
An episode that focuses on the letters that passed between soldiers and those at home during American history.
#5 - Two Days in October
American Experience - Season 18 - Episode 1
Discord in two different places - a withering ambush of US troops by the Viet Cong 40 miles west of Saigon and a student protest that turns violent at the University of Wisconsin.
#6 - The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal
Explorer - Season 1993 - Episode 2
Explorer follows Bob Ballard and veterans from both America and Japan as they search for ships that were sunk during the Battle of Guadalcanal.