American Experience · SEASON 20
Walt Whitman
Episode 11 · 2008-04-14
- Documentary
Episode overview
This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.
55 minutes
Season 20 episodes
1. Oswald's Ghost2008-01-14
2. The Lobotomist2008-01-21
3. Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies2008-02-03
4. Grand Central2008-02-04
5. Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land2008-02-10
6. Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?2008-02-17
7. Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement2008-02-24
8. Kit Carson2008-02-18
9. Buffalo Bill2008-02-25
10. Minik: The Lost Eskimo2009-03-31
11. Walt Whitman2008-04-14
12. Roberto Clemente2008-04-21
13. George H.W. Bush (1)2008-05-05
14. George H.W. Bush (2)2008-05-06
