American Experience
The Busing Battleground
Court-mandated social integration unleashes racial unrest throughout Boston in the 1970s as Black and white students are bussed together. (120 minutes)
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UPCOMING EPISODES
Tue, 5/21 at 8:00 pm on Austin PBS HDTV
The Riot Report
President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints the 11-member Kerner Commission to investigate the riots that engulfed Black urban communities across the country in 1967. (120 minutes)
Wed, 5/22 at 1:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Dust bowl turns wheat fields into desert and provides hardships for farmers. (60 minutes)
Thu, 5/23 at 1:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
The Great Famine
Nearly 300 workers volunteer for Herbert Hoover's relief campaign for Soviet Russia's famine victims in 1921. (60 minutes)
Fri, 5/24 at 7:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
The Riot Report
President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints the 11-member Kerner Commission to investigate the riots that engulfed Black urban communities across the country in 1967. (120 minutes)
Sat, 5/25 at 12:00 am on Austin PBS WORLD
The Riot Report
President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints the 11-member Kerner Commission to investigate the riots that engulfed Black urban communities across the country in 1967. (120 minutes)
Sat, 5/25 at 8:00 am on Austin PBS WORLD
The Riot Report
President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints the 11-member Kerner Commission to investigate the riots that engulfed Black urban communities across the country in 1967. (120 minutes)
Mon, 5/27 at 3:00 am on Austin PBS WORLD
The Sun Queen
Biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkes, designer of the first successfully solar-heated modern residence, held more than 20 patents at the time of her death in 1995. (60 minutes)
Tue, 5/28 at 1:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
Riveted: The History of Jeans
The history of jeans, from their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop. (60 minutes)
Tue, 5/28 at 2:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
The Lie Detector
A look at the polygraph, a device created by two men in the 1920s that could tell if a person was lying, and how it has transformed police work. (60 minutes)
Tue, 5/28 at 3:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
The story behind the board game Monopoly. (60 minutes)
Wed, 5/29 at 1:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
Fatal Flood
The raging floodwaters of the Mississippi River in 1927 that divided one small town, pitting rich against poor, black against white and threatened to tear one family apart. (60 minutes)