The BEST episodes of American Experience season 7
Every episode of American Experience season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of American Experience season 7!
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 - FDR (3): The Grandest Job in the World (1933-1940)
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1994
In episode three, the subject is FDR's leadership of America during the Great Depression. The nation turned to this son of great wealth for a host of social programs that promised a New Deal for the common man.
#2 - Battle of the Bulge
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1994
American forces moving toward Germany to end the war are opposed by a deadly counter-offensive that leads to a great loss of life.
#3 - America's War on Poverty, Part 5: My Brother's Keeper
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/1995
#4 - America's War on Poverty, Part 4: In Service to America
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/17/1995
#5 - America's War on Poverty, Part 3: City of Promise
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/17/1995
#6 - America's War on Poverty, Part 2: Given A Chance
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/16/1995
#7 - America's War on Poverty, Part 1: In This Affluent Society
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/16/1995
#8 - FDR (2): Fear Itself (1922-1933)
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1994
In this second episode, the subject is FDR's courageous fight with polio. With his wife Eleanor Roosevelt at his side, FDR, wins the Democratic nomination for president. He takes office at the beginning of the Great Depression. Exhorting the nation to keep the faith, FDR utters his famous words: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
#9 - FDR (4): The Juggler (1940-1945)
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1994
In this last episode, the story turns to the war years. The days leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War II were turbulent ones in America. FDR's strong leadership charted America's course, as the newly emerging world power took on the responsibilities of the war in Europe. Meanwhile, back in America, the New Deal was still a work in progress.
#10 - The Way West (4): Ghost Dance (1877-1893)
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/9/1995
Chronicles the crackdown on Native American tribes across the Northwest in the aftermath of the Battle of the Little Big Horn in June 1876, and charts the final, desperate days of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. Examines the rise of the heartbreaking Ghost Dance religion, and the last, horrendous massacre at Wounded Knee.
#14 - One Woman, One Vote (2)
Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/1995
#15 - One Woman, One Vote
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/15/1995
The struggle of the women's movement and the 19th Amendment that finally extended national suffrage to women.
#16 - Midnight Ramble
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1994
Oscar Micheaux and the History of Race. Oscar Micheaux wrote, produced and directed over 40 movies and despite this was really not known because he was African American . This movie recounts the history of the black film industry from 1910 to the 1940s and includes rare clips and highlights.
#17 - Telegrams from the Dead
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1994
A program that examines America's fascination with spiritualism and the occult in the second half of the 1800s.
#18 - FDR (1): The Center of the World (1882-1921)
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/11/1994
This first episode looks at the early life of FDR. Born into a wealthy family, there was little about his youth that would suggest the giant of history that he would become. His entry into state politics and a significant meeting with a woman named Eleanor would change his life and the course of a nation.