American Experience

Court-mandated social integration unleashes racial unrest throughout Boston in the 1970s as Black and White students are bussed together.

Stars: Henry Allen, Thomas Atkins, Ruth M. Batson
Director(s): Sharon Grimberg, Cyndee Readdean
Writer(s): Sharon Grimberg

The lively but neglected history of the women who changed the world while flying it.

Director(s): Sarah Colt, Helen Ryan Dobrowski

The Cancer Detectives tells the untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the coalition of people who fought tirelessly to save women from cervical cancer-which was once the number one cancer killer of women.

Stars: Andia Winslow
Director(s): Amanda Pollak, Gene Tempest
Writer(s): Gene Tempest

A TOXIC SECRET BENEATH THEIR FEET - "Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal" tells the dramatic and inspiring story of the ordinary women who fought against overwhelming odds for the health and safety of their families. In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal, a working-class neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, discovered that their homes, schools and playgrounds were built on top of a former chemical waste dump, which was now leaking toxic substances and wreaking havoc on their health. Through interviews with many of the extraordinary housewives turned activists, the film shows how they effectively challenged those in power, forced America to reckon with the human cost of unregulated industry, and created a grassroots movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill.

When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to find the cause for the unrest. Their findings offered an unvarnished assessment of American race relations.

Stars: Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael
Director(s): Michelle Ferrari
Writer(s): Jelani Cobb, Michelle Ferrari

The American Vice President tells the little-known story of the second-highest office in the land, tracing its evolution from a constitutional afterthought to a position of political consequence.

Stars: Hilary Brown, Carole Jerome, Stephen Kinzer

The little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina's largest city, Wilmington in 1898.

Stars: Hilary Brown, Carole Jerome, Stephen Kinzer