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Shopping with TJC
Exploring the many different concepts of family in the natural world: getting together, the raising of cubs and chicks and how family bonds can determine an animal’s fate. Part 5 of 12.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The story of Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, who was killed by an ambitious sheriff just weeks after avoiding the hangman's noose by mounting a daring escape from prison. Demonised by the lawman who killed him and mythologised in dime-store romances and big-screen dramas, the true story of the son of poor Irish immigrants in New Mexico who became regarded as a hero by the Hispanic community has often been obscured.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Long before Paul Newman and Robert Redford immortalised them on screen, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid captivated Americans from coast to coast. In the 1890s, their bank and train robberies in the West became national news and the basis of rumours and myth. But who were Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh and how did they manage to elude the Pinkertons, the nation's most feared detective force? Separating fact from fiction, this documentary explores their story. Ⓢ
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Documentary. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were the most famous criminal couple in US history. During the height of the Great Depression, their gang evolved from petty thieves to nationally known bank robbers and murderers, joining the ranks of other gangsters of the era like John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson. Though newsreels portrayed them as the underworld's dark prince and princess of crime, in reality the pair had little in common with their glamorous media images. Ⓢ
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: She was the toast of New York, London, Paris and eventually the world. She was 'adopted' by Chief Sitting Bull, charmed the Prince of Prussia and entertained the likes of Oscar Wilde and Queen Victoria. Annie Oakley excelled in a man's world by doing what she loved, and won fame and fortune as the little lady from Ohio who never missed a shot. This is the story of a diminutive sharpshooter who pulled herself out of the depths of poverty to become a performer who symbolised the Wild West.
The life of Wyatt Earp is a lens on politics, justice, and economic opportunity in the American frontier. As a young man, Wyatt Earp was a caricature of the Western lawman.
South Vietnamese forces fighting on their own in Laos suffer a terrible defeat. Massive U.S. airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive. After being re-elected by a landslide, Nixon announces Hanoi has agreed to a peace deal. American prisoners of war will finally come home - to a bitterly divided country. A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Part 9 of 10.
While the Watergate scandal rivets Americans’ attention and forces President Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another in a brutal civil war. When hundreds of thousands of North Vietnamese troops pour into the South, Saigon descends rapidly into chaos and collapses. For the next forty years, Americans and Vietnamese from all sides search for healing and reconciliation. A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Part 10 of 10.
