The BEST episodes written by Barak Goodman
#1 - My Lai
American Experience - Season 22 - Episode 6
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.
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American Experience - Season 29 - Episode 6
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by the literature and ideas of the radical right, parked a Ryder truck with a five-ton fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. 168 people were killed and 675 were injured in the blast. Oklahoma City traces the events — including the deadly encounters between American citizens and law enforcement at Ruby Ridge and Waco — that led McVeigh to commit the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history.
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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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American Experience - Season 24 - Episode 3
Clinton tells the story of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage. From draft dodging to the Dayton Accords, from Monica Lewinsky to a balanced budget, the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton veered between sordid scandal and grand achievement. Clinton had a career full of accomplishment and rife with scandal, a marriage that would make history and create controversy, and a presidency that would define the crucial and transformative period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11.
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American Experience - Season 29 - Episode 7
A riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement.
#6 - The Fight
American Experience - Season 17 - Episode 2
The 1938 fight between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and the political and social ideologies the world thought were represented by the boxers.
#7 - 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.
#8 - The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
American Experience - Season 21 - Episode 3
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Over the next twelve days, as a fractured nation mourned, the largest manhunt ever attempted closed in on his assassin, the renowned 26-year-old actor John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln recounts this great American drama: two tumultuous months when the joy of peace was shattered by the heartache of Lincoln’s death.
#9 - Daley: The Last Boss
American Experience - Season 8 - Episode 6
Biography of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, considered one of the last major heads of big city "machine" politics in the United States.
#10 - Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
American Experience - Season 13 - Episode 13
False allegations of rape taint the record of justice in Alabama during the early 1930s.
#11 - 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.