Explore our new collection featuring a selection of films documenting the LGBTQ+ Experience — along with articles, digital shorts, and original features exploring America’s continued struggle with democracy, inclusion and justice for LGBTQ+ Americans, and celebrating the contributions of the LGBTQ+ community to the American story.
In 2023, American Experience partnered with StoryCorps Studios to record, uplift and archive stories about racial desegregation and educational equity efforts in American schools. These personal accounts reflect experiences from an array of regional, racial, ethnic, and gender perspectives, providing a link to a formative chapter in the story of modern America.
These stories are shared in three formats below: Living Memories, animated short videos; Mementos, documentary style short videos; and Recollections, unedited full-length audio accounts of those experiences.
They all went to Mississippi in 1964 for different reasons—some were already there. But they all had a common goal: to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation's most segregated states.
In collaboration with The GroundTruth Project, this collection explores the continued struggle for voting rights in communities across the U.S., in connection withThe Vote, by American Experience, and as part of GroundTruth’s "On the Ground” initiative with Report for America.
In this collection, delve into stories from We Shall Remain, a five-part 2009 series on the history and lives of Native Americans, and from other American Experience films.
