The BEST episodes of American Experience season 22
Every episode of American Experience season 22, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of American Experience season 22!
Presents an absorbing look at the personalities, events and resources that have had a profound impact on the shaping of America's past and present.
#1 - The Civilian Conservation Corps
Season 22 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/2009
FDR establishes a back-to-work program that generates employment and addresses some of the nation's environmental needs during the Great Depression.
#2 - Dolley Madison
Season 22 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/1/2010
Tony Award-winner Eve Best stars as Dolley Madison, America’s “first First Lady”; Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays is James Madison.
#3 - My Lai
Season 22 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/26/2010
Examines one of the darkest chapters of the Vietnam War: the 1968 My Lai massacre, its cover-up and the soldiers who broke rank to halt the atrocities.
#4 - Earth Days
Season 22 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/19/2010
Director Robert Stone traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its beginnings in the 1950s.
#6 - Roads to Memphis
Season 22 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/3/2010
A treatment of the assassination of Martin Luther King by James Earl Ray from the perspective of the actual lives of the two men.
#7 - Wyatt Earp
Season 22 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/25/2010
The complex life of a man who has come to represent western justice but had many connections to lawlessness.
#8 - The Bombing of Germany
Season 22 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/8/2010
This film examines the defining moments of the offensive that led the U.S. across a moral divide. Weaving interviews with WWII pilots and historians with stunning archival footage of the bombing and its aftermath, the program is a haunting reminder of the dilemma imposed by war’s civilian casualties.