American Experience: Season 7
Season 7 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 6.
- 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 7 Progress Shield
FDR (1): The Center of the World (1882-1921)
Oct 12, 1994 · 55 min
Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who steered the United States through two monumental crises: the Depression and World
FDR (2): Fear Itself (1922-1933)
Oct 12, 1992 · 55 min
In this second episode, the subject is FDR's courageous fight with polio. With his wife Eleanor Roosevelt at his side, FDR, wins the Democratic nomination for president. He takes o
FDR (3): The Grandest Job in the World (1933-1940)
Oct 13, 1994 · 55 min
In episode 3, the subject is FDR's leadership of America during the Great Depression. The nation turned to this son of great wealth for a host of social programs that promised a Ne
FDR (4): The Juggler (1940-1945)
Oct 13, 1994 · 55 min
The portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt concludes with his years as preside (1932 until his death in 1945), how he dealt with the Great Depression, and his link with Winston Chur
Telegrams from the Dead
Oct 19, 1994 · 55 min
For 40 years, a new religion called spiritualism affected the nation as no other ever had. Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum, Frederick Douglass, senators, and scientists argued over th
Midnight Ramble
Oct 26, 1994 · 55 min
The little-known story of a black independent film industry that thrived outside of Hollywood and produced close to 500 feature movies for African American audiences between 1910 a
Battle of the Bulge
Nov 9, 1994 · 55 min
The history of World War II's "Battle of the Bulge", when the German army launched a major surprise counteroffensive against the American forces that caught them almost completely
One Woman, One Vote
Feb 15, 1995 · 120 min
From Elizabeth Cady Stanton's electrifying call to arms at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the last battle for passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, a recounting of the infighting,
The Way West (1): Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1845-1864)
May 8, 1995 · 55 min
A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West
The Way West (2): The Approach of Civilization (1865-1869)
May 9, 1995 · 55 min
A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West
The Way West (3): The War for the Black Hills (1870-1876)
May 16, 1995 · 55 min
A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West
The Way West (4): Ghost Dance (1877-1893)
May 17, 1995 · 55 min
A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West