The BEST episodes written by Ken Chowder
#1 - Annie Oakley
American Experience - Season 18 - Episode 12
Chronicle of the amazing markswoman, her life, the discovery of her talent, and the promotion of her career.
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#2 - Influenza 1918
American Experience - Season 10 - Episode 6
The worst epidemic in American history killed over 600,000 Americans during World War I. Nicknamed "Spanish influenza," it died out quickly the following winter.
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American Experience - Season 5 - Episode 9
The short but notable career of the coach and his team with stories from some of those who remember him.
#4 - Battle for Wilderness
American Experience - Season 2 - Episode 14
A profile of an early environmental dispute over the construction of a dam in California after the earthquake of 1906.
#5 - Wild by Law
American Experience - Season 4 - Episode 11
The modern movement to preserve natural wilderness in the United States.
#6 - John Brown's Holy War
American Experience - Season 12 - Episode 10
Rise and fall of the volatile and sometimes violent abolitionist.
#7 - The War of 1812
PBS Specials - Season 2011 - Episode 10
The War 1812 is a two-hour film history of a deeply significant event in North American and world history. The war shaped American, Canadian and British destiny in the most literal way possible: had one or two battles or decisions gone a different way, a map of the United States today would look entirely (and shockingly) different. The U.S. could well have included Canada - but was also on the verge of losing much of the Midwest, and perhaps the entire West to boot. The New England states, meanwhile, were poised on the brink of secession just months before a peace treaty was signed. The fires of this war forged the nation of Canada; at the same time, the result tolled the end of Native American dreams of a separate nation. By war's end, the process of Native nation removal had already begun in the southeast, paving the way for a Cotton Kingdom powered by slavery, and a United States that had been on the verge of collapse was ready to announce its arrival as a global power. The U.S. did not win the War of 1812, but the noble experiment of democracy had managed to survive intense pressure from without, and within.
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