The BEST episodes written by Chana Gazit
#1 - Surviving the Dust Bowl
American Experience - Season 10 - Episode 9
The story of the farmers who came to the Southern Plains of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas dreaming of prosperity, and lived through ten years of drought, dust, disease and death.
#2 - Chicago 1968
American Experience - Season 8 - Episode 3
The nation watches a political convention that in many ways is a symbol of the turbulent times in which it was held.
#3 - Meltdown at Three Mile Island
American Experience - Season 11 - Episode 9
An account of the causes of the partial core meltdown at the Pennsylvania nuclear power plant in 1979 and the reactions of staff and the public.
#4 - Fatal Flood
American Experience - Season 13 - Episode 14
A story of the flooding of the Mississippi River in 1927 and how it exposed social and racial problems beyond the natural disaster itself.
#5 - The Pill
American Experience - Season 15 - Episode 9
The discoveries that led to the birth control pill and its subsequent impact on American women.
#6 - Test Tube Babies
American Experience - Season 19 - Episode 7
Science enables advances in reproduction and the establishment of a new medical industry, but often not one as successful as people imagine.