The BEST episodes written by Adriana Bosch
#1 - Jimmy Carter (1): Jimmy Who?
American Experience - Season 15 - Episode 1
The story of the Georgia governor who won the presidency and the numerous challenges that plagued his administration.
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American Experience - Season 15 - Episode 2
This episode primarily focuses on the defining crisis of Carter's presidency: the Iran Hostage Crisis. It explores how this event, combined with domestic economic issues, derailed his re-election bid, while also touching upon his significant post-presidency humanitarian work.
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American Experience - Season 14 - Episode 13
The military career and troubled administration of the 15th President of the United States.
#4 - Reagan (1): Lifeguard
American Experience - Season 10 - Episode 6
When he left the White House in 1988, Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular presidents of the century - and one of the most controversial. A failed actor, Reagan became a passionate ideologue who preached a gospel of lower taxes, less government and anti-communism. Reagan surprised opponents, rising to become a president who always preferred to see America as a "shining city on a hill."
#5 - Ulysses S. Grant (2): The President
American Experience - Season 14 - Episode 14
This is the second part of a two-part documentary series on PBS's American Experience, focusing on Grant's presidency and his efforts to lead the nation through Reconstruction. It covers his presidency, which was marked by scandal due to his loyalty to associates, but also highlights his significant efforts to enforce civil rights, protect the rights of newly freed African Americans, and combat the Ku Klux Klan. The documentary examines his work to transform the nation from a union in conflict to a unified nation and his role in setting a course for America on the world stage.
#6 - American Comandante
American Experience - Season 27 - Episode 10
When William Morgan was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961, his strange story seemed to vanish from the popular imagination as quickly as it had appeared; it was lost in the classified archives of the Cold War and edited out of Cuban history by Fidel Castro’s retelling of the revolution.
#7 - The Great Fever
American Experience - Season 19 - Episode 8
Walter Reed travels to Cuba to investigate the radical theory that mosquitoes spread deadly Yellow Fever.
#8 - The Rockefellers (2)
American Experience - Season 13 - Episode 2
Continuation of the biography of one of America's wealthiest and most influential families.
#9 - Fidel Castro
American Experience - Season 17 - Episode 3
The rise of communist rule in Cuba and Castro's long era of leadership.
#10 - Ike (1): Soldier
American Experience - Season 6 - Episode 3
Part 1 chronicles Eisenhower's childhood, education at West Point and military career, culminating in his service as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.