American Experience: Season 29
Season 29 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of American Experience Season 28.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 29 Progress Shield
Command and Control
Jan 10, 2017 · 55 min
An account of an incident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Ark., in 1980 that almost caused the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead 600 times more
Rachel Carson
Jan 24, 2017 · 55 min
She set out to save a species...us. An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world.
The Race Underground
Jan 31, 2017 · 55 min
The dramatic story of the country's first subway.
Oklahoma City
Feb 7, 2017 · 55 min
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by literature and ideas of the radical right, killed 168, and injured 675 others.
Ruby Ridge
Feb 14, 2017 · 55 min
A riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement.
The Great War: Part 1
Apr 10, 2017 · 55 min
Part 1 of 3. President Woodrow Wilson vowed to keep the U.S. out of World War I after hostilities erupted in Europe in August 1914. It was a promise he kept until 1917, when the
The Great War: Part 2
Apr 11, 2017 · 55 min
Part 2 of 3. America's entry into World War I is recalled, including the breathtaking speed of mobilization and the profound transformations required for America to play a central
The Great War: Part 3
Apr 12, 2017 · 55 min
Part 3 of 3. In the fall of 1918: a major American offensive that could bring a swift end to the war, a lost U.S. battalion surrounded by German forces, a deadly flu epidemic on