American Experience PBS

?? Washington, D.C.! Join us Thursday night for a special preview of CHANGE, NOT CHARITY: THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History . We'll be joined by Gallaudet University's first deaf president, I. King Jordan, and filmmakers James LeBrecht and Chana Gazit for a conversation moderated by executive producer Cameo George. Before the event, get an exclusive look at objects out of storage from the museum’s collections relating to the disability civil rights movement! ?? Thursday, March 13 ? 7:00 PM ?? Smithsonian National Museum of American History Register to attend ?? https://lnkd.in/edw5b3Je

?? Washington, D.C.! Join us tomorrow night for a special preview of FORGOTTEN HERO: WALTER WHITE AND THE NAACP at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History followed by a panel conversation with filmmakers Michelle Smawley and Rob Rapley, historian Patricia Sullivan, and executive producer Cameo George. Before the event starts, get an exclusive look at objects out of storage from the museum’s collections relating to the NAACP and the Civil Rights Movement. ?? Thursday, February 20 ? 7:00-10:00 PM ?? Smithsonian National Museum of American History Register to attend ?? https://lnkd.in/eNzeYHe4

Supported in part by National Endowment for the Humanities, our film AMERICAN COUP: WILMINGTON 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898. Read more from Humanities magazine?? #BlackHistoryMonth https://bit.ly/41d33K3

Check out an exclusive first look at our upcoming premiere, FORGOTTEN HERO: WALTER WHITE AND THE NAACP, directed by Michelle Smawley, written and produced by Rob Rapley, and executive produced by Cameo George. #ForgottenHeroPBS #BlackHistoryMonth https://lnkd.in/e6jFvi3J

We are honored to share that three of our films have been nominated for a 2025 Writers Guild Award in the Documentary Script category: ???? THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT, written by Michelle Ferrari ?? THE CANCER DETECTIVES, written by Gene Tempest ??? POISONED GROUND: THE TRAGEDY AT LOVE CANAL, written by Jamila Ephron Congratulations to our outstanding writers! ?? #WGA #WritersGuildAwards #WritersGuildofAmerica

Season’s Greetings! As 2024 comes to a close, I am once again so proud and thankful to be a part of the amazing American Experience PBS team. It’s been a roller coaster of a year, but as always, my hope was that our films would offer some context to (or maybe even an escape from!) the events that unfolded. From what one critic at Rolling Stone called a “bracing reminder to never take American democracy for granted” in our season premiere of NAZI TOWN, USA, to the bold, young women fighting for equal rights in the workplace in FLY WITH ME, to the Kerner Commission’s unvarnished look at the whys of racial unrest of 1967 in THE RIOT REPORT, to the surprising history of the second-in-command revealed in THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT, each of our deeply-researched historical documentaries taught us something about who we are and where we are at this moment in time. One of the things I love most about the work we do at American Experience is hearing how our films impact you, our viewers. Whether it was at one of our in-person or virtual events, at a film festival or via social media, you shared with me your memories of living through the events covered in our films, your appreciation for the untold stories we seek to tell, and how your eyes may have been opened after one of our screenings. → In Wilmington, North Carolina, descendants of both the victims and perpetrators of the insurrection depicted in AMERICAN COUP: WILMINGTON 1898 shared their stories of reckoning and repair. Many of you revealed that it was your first time learning that this was the only successful insurrection in American history—a fact we were not surprised to hear (learn why: https://to.pbs.org/4iUTaIU). → In upstate New York and in Washington, D.C., we spoke with the housewives whose fierce and unapologetic grassroots movement led to the Superfund Bill in POISONED GROUND: THE TRAGEDY AT LOVE CANAL, and heard from those of you with visceral recollections of this and other close-to-home environmental disasters. → And we flew to Seattle, Washington, D.C and New York, to meet the “stewardesses” (as they called themselves back then) of our film FLY WITH ME. I was delighted to meet so many former and current flight attendants in the audience—a particularly lively and spirited bunch! That is the magic of our work at American Experience: creating opportunities for dialogue between you—our viewers and friends—and our experts, storytellers and living witnesses, about these important moments in American history. It’s our privilege to do that with you and for you. Let’s keep looking back to history to gain a clearer picture of what’s in front of us, so we can move forward—together. Wishing you warmth and joy this holiday season, Cameo George Executive Producer ??: Photos from our FLY WITH ME preview event at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington. Credit: Ted Heutter.

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Our film POISONED GROUND: THE TRAGEDY AT LOVE CANAL has been nominated for a 2025 Realscreen Award in the category of Non-Fiction - History & Biography! Written, produced and directed by Jamila Ephron and executive produced by Cameo George, POISONED GROUND: THE TRAGEDY AT LOVE CANAL tells the story of the residents of Love Canal, New York who led a grassroots movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill. → https://to.pbs.org/3TSse20 #RealscreenAwards25 #PoisonedGroundPBS

Congratulations to our Executive Producer, Cameo George, for making this year's #TheRoot100 list of the most influential Black leaders across the arts, media, politics and more! Learn more → https://lnkd.in/eWvJyk5r

From GBH's American Experience PBS, AMERICAN COUP: WILMINGTON 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the only coup d’état in the history of the US. The story of what happened in Wilmington was suppressed for decades until descendants and scholars began to investigate. Directed by award-winning filmmakers Brad Lichtenstein and Yoruba Richen in association with PBS North Carolina and executive produced by Cameo George and Rachel Raney, AMERICAN COUP: WILMINGTON 1898, premieres tonight, November 12 at 9pm ET on American Experience PBS. Learn more: https://to.pbs.org/3Y5AfkK #AmericanCoupPBS