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Walt Whitman

Season 20 Episode 8

American Experience presents Walt Whitman, a two-hour documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Mark Zwonitzer (Jesse James, The Massie Affair), featuring Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper as the voice of America's first great poet. Pulitzer Prize-winning poets, novelists and essayists recite some of Whitman's most important works, and reflect upon his enduring influence.

Aired: 04/13/08
Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Carlisle Companies. Major funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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When US inner cities erupted in violence in 1967, LBJ created a commission to investigate.
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A look at the US vice presidency, from constitutional afterthought to position of political import.
When US inner cities erupted in violence in 1967, LBJ created a commission to investigate.
The story of housewives who led a grassroots movement to galvanize the Superfund Bill.
The untold story of the people who fought tirelessly to save women from cervical cancer.
The lively but neglected history of the women who changed the world while flying it.
The story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group active across the US in the 1930s.
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The story of a Mississippi town’s effort to integrate its public schools in 1970.
Revisit 1970s Boston, when court-mandated school integration unleashed racial unrest.