American Experience · SEASON 17
Kinsey
Episode 5 · 2005-02-14
- Documentary
Episode overview
Profiling Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the Indiana University zoologist whose "revolutionary picture of American sexuality" rocked the country in the late 1940s and early '50s. Filmmakers Barak Goodman and John Maggio interview Kinsey colleagues and biographers, along with people took part in his studies, to paint a portrait of an "unyielding" proponent of sexual freedom who practiced what he preached. Says sexologist Paul Gebhard, a Kinsey assistant: "He was a rebel."
55 minutes
Season 17 episodes
1. RFK (Part 1 & 2)2004-10-04
2. The Fight2005-01-24
3. Fidel Castro2005-01-31
4. Building the Alaska Highway2005-02-07
5. Kinsey2005-02-14
6. Mary Pickford2005-04-04
7. The Great Transatlantic Cable2005-04-11
8. The Massie Affair2005-04-18
9. Victory in the Pacific2005-05-02
10. The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?2005-05-09
11. Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst2005-05-23
