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- Season 0 2003-01-15
- Season 1 1988-10-04
- Season 2 1989-10-03
- Season 3 1990-08-27
- Season 4 1991-09-30
- Season 5 1992-09-20
- Season 6 1993-10-27
- Season 7 1994-10-12
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- Season 12 1999-11-14
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- Season 14 2001-09-10
- Season 15 2002-11-11
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- Season 18 2005-10-17
- Season 19 2006-10-02
- Season 20 2008-01-14
- Season 21 2009-01-26
- Season 22 2009-11-02
- Season 23 2010-10-11
- Season 24 2012-01-10
- Season 25 2013-01-08
- Season 26 2014-01-07
- Season 27 2015-01-06
- Season 28 2016-01-19
- Season 29 2017-01-10
- Season 30 2018-01-09
- Season 31 2019-01-15
- Season 32 2020-01-06
- Season 33 2021-01-11
- Season 34 2022-02-07
- Season 35 2023-01-03
- Season 36 2024-01-23
- Season 37 1970-01-01
Season 37 Episode
- Season 17 RFK (Part 1 & 2)
- Season 17 The Fight
- Season 17 Fidel Castro
- Season 17 Building the Alaska Highway
- Season 17 Kinsey
- Season 17 Mary Pickford
- Season 17 The Great Transatlantic Cable
- Season 17 The Massie Affair
- Season 17 Victory in the Pacific
- Season 17 The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
- Season 17 Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
American Experience - Season 17 Episode 7 The Great Transatlantic Cable
7.45 55 minutes Cyrus Field's struggle to lay telegraph cables across the Atlantic in the 1850s and '60s is chronicled. When Field finally succeeded, in 1866, it marked "the annihilation of space and time," says historian David Czitrom. But the 13-year effort -- recalled here in re-creations and comments from historians and engineers -- included many false starts and one spectacular failure. Still, says Czitrom, "he never let up."
