There Were No Environmental Laws
From AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Earth Days - What were environmental conditions like in the US in the early 1960s?
The Presidency and the Environment
From the 1960s to today, US Presidents have talked about saving our environment.
Victory in the Pacific - Preview
"Take no prisoners. Fight to the bitter end." Those were everyday words to combat troops on both sides at the end of World War II in the Pacific. And they led to an unprecedented orgy of slaughter. This provocative film looks at the escalation of bloodletting from both sides of that fight.
Government Film: Target Tokyo
Special Film Project 153, produced by the Army Air Forces in 1945 and narrated by Hollywood actor and future president Ronald Reagan, is better known as Target Tokyo. The film follows the bombers' first mission, from crew training in Nebraska to deployment on the Pacific island of Saipan -- secured as an air assault launching point -- and then to Japan and the new aircraft's first bombing raid.
Original Interview: Janis Jones-Thomson
Janice Jones-Thomson and her sister Leslie Jones McPartland look back on the lobotomy done to their mother, Beulah Jones.
Original Interview: Angelene Forester
Angelene Forester remembers Walter Freeman's first transorbital lobotomy patient -- her mother Ellen Ionesco.
Original Interview: Howard Dully
Howard Dully discusses the lobotomy that Walter Freeman performed on him when he was twelve.
Government Film: Operation Cover Up
U.S. Army film about the effects of protective hoods in a toxic atmosphere.
Government Film: Botulism
A U.S. Government film on the effects of botulism toxin on Rhesus monkeys.
Government film: Incapacitation by Enterotoxin
A U.S. Government film about food poisoning, and testing Enterotoxin on monkeys.
Government Film: Dispersion
A U.S. Government film on the procedure for the dispersion of a biological weapon.
Trailer | Influenza 1918 | American Experience
It was the worst epidemic in American history, killing over 600,000 — until it disappeared as mysteriously as it had begun.
Soylent Green Trailer
Released in 1973, Soylent Green depicts a future in which human over-consumption has led to extreme depletion of resources. This now-amusing 1970's science fiction film reflects a concern about human consumption commonly felt at that time.
The Bombing of Germany Preview
In World War II British and American Allied forces carried out a bombing campaign of unprecedented might over Germany's cities, claiming the lives of nearly half a million civilians.
Government Film: Memphis Belle
Excerpts from a U.S. Government film on the bombing missions of the Memphis Belle.
Interview Dr. Alfred Crosby
Dr. Alfred Crosby, author of Epidemic and Peace 1918: America's Forgotten Pandemic, spoke with AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in 1997.
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