The BEST episodes written by Steve Fayer

#1 - After the Crash

American Experience - Season 3 - Episode 12

After the stock market crashed in 1929, thousands suffered unemployment and poverty in the Great Depression. The most desperate year, 1932, brought World War I veterans' Bonus March, the election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the New Deal.

#2 - Eyes on the Prize (5): Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964)

American Experience - Season 19 - Episode 5

Mississippi's grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.

#3 - Malcolm X: Make It Plain

American Experience - Season 6 - Episode 7

Story of the controversial Malcolm X, his early years, his connection to the Nation of Islam, and his legacy.

#4 - George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (1)

American Experience - Season 12 - Episode 11

The tumultuous career of the controversial politician from Alabama.

#5 - George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (2)

American Experience - Season 12 - Episode 12

#6 - Eyes on the Prize (3): Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)

American Experience - Season 19 - Episode 3

Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. "Freedom Riders" also try to desegregate interstate buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel.