The BEST episodes written by Matthew Collins
#1 - Sins of Our Mothers
American Experience - Season 1 - Episode 16
A tale of a woman in the 1800s who risked scorn by marrying a man much younger than herself, and a person later found to be her biological son from long ago.
#2 - Pocahontas Revealed
NOVA - Season 34 - Episode 6
The recent archeological discovery of the Native American Powhatan village of Werowocomoco, sheds new light on the Jamestown story of Pocahontas.
#3 - Ancient Refuge In The Holy Land
NOVA - Season 31 - Episode 18
Isreal's remote Cave of Letters holds clues to a Jewish uprising against the Romans.
#4 - Barnum's Big Top
American Experience - Season 4 - Episode 12
P.T. Barnum launches a scheme to bring entertainment and marvels to the country - something that one day becomes "The Greatest Show on Earth."
#5 - Telegrams from the Dead
American Experience - Season 7 - Episode 5
A program that examines America's fascination with spiritualism and the occult in the second half of the 1800s.
#6 - Edison's Miracle of Light
American Experience - Season 8 - Episode 2
Inventor Thomas A. Edison experiments with electricity, long-burning filaments, and glass bulbs to give America an alternative to gas lights.