The BEST episodes written by Elizabeth Deane
#1 - Vietnam: A Television History (2): America's Mandarin
American Experience - Season 9 - Episode 14
The United States is drawn into Vietnam through its support − then abandonment − of South Vietnam's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, who is assassinated in a coup. An edited re-broadcast of the 1983 series Vietnam: A Television History.
#2 - Ulysses S. Grant (1): The Warrior
American Experience - Season 14 - Episode 13
The military career and troubled administration of the 15th President of the United States.
#3 - 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.
#4 - The Rockefellers (1)
American Experience - Season 13 - Episode 1
Biography of the family through four generations and their changing ideas on the use of money and power in America.
#5 - John and Abigail Adams
American Experience - Season 18 - Episode 5
A chronicle of the lives of the couple and their mutual regard for each other's abilities and intelligence.
#6 - Plague at the Golden Gate
American Experience - Season 34 - Episode 4
More than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor.
#7 - Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2): Retreat
American Experience - Season 16 - Episode 3
#8 - Vietnam: A Television History (11): The Fall of Saigon
American Experience - Season 9 - Episode 23
Ten years after American ground troops arrived in South Vietnam, communists seize Saigon in a lightning attack that brings the war to a startling conclusion. An edited re-broadcast of the 1983 series Vietnam: A Television History.
#9 - Vietnam: A Television History (10): Homefront USA
American Experience - Season 9 - Episode 22
Americans at home divide over a distant war, clashing in the streets as demonstrations lead to bloodshed, bitterness and increasing doubts. An edited re-broadcast of the 1983 series Vietnam: A Television History.