The story of L.A.’s noxious smog problem and the creation of the EPA and Clean Air Act. In 1943, dark, smoky clouds enveloped Los Angeles, causing residents to complain of burning eyes, nausea, and ...
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. PBS’s “American Experience” explores bipartisan efforts to improve the quality of American air in the 20th century in ...
GBH is pausing new episodes of American Experience, public television’s signature documentary series about American history, following Congress’ move to zero out federal funding for stations, NPR and ...
The documentary series “American Experience” begins an abbreviated schedule this week. A victim of the federal funding take-back, it has suspended production and laid off its staff. By Mike Hale The ...
The final documentary of American Experience before the series pauses new production explores the life and career of the ...
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: On May 8, 1970, “the Hard Hat Riot” erupted in lower Manhattan. At midday, construction workers, including those building the World Trade Center, violently clashed with students ...
The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...
GBH announced Tuesday that it is laying off 13 employees at American Experience, and pausing production of new American Experience documentaries. “Severe cuts in federal funding for public media are ...
Midcentury Los Angeles was a boomtown. People came for economic opportunities, Hollywood glamour, and the sunny, beautiful weather. But when thick, choking clouds threatened to tarnish its appeal, a ...