American Experience
Season 15 Episode 2 - Jimmy Carter (2): Hostage
"Hostage," the conclusion of a two-part Jimmy Carter biography, covers his presidency and post-presidency. Human rights were to be "a basic tenet of our foreign policy," Carter declared in 1977, but he was overwhelmed by events in Iran, and economic woes at home led to a "malaise" so severe that the 1978 Camp David accords didn't even give him a boost in the polls. Then came the hostage crisis. But back in Plains, he and Rosalynn regrouped. And now? As former Carter speechwriter Henrdrik Hertzberg puts it: "His values, his devotion to human rights, keep on resonating in a way that his failures and weaknesses don't."
Episodes in Season 15
Jimmy Carter (1): Jimmy Who?
55 min
Jimmy Carter (2): Hostage
55 min
Chicago: City of the Century (1): Mudhole to Metropolis
55 min
Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun
55 min
Chicago: City of the Century (3): Battle for Chicago
55 min
The Murder of Emmett Till
55 min
Transcontinental Railroad
55 min
Partners of the Heart
55 min
The Pill
55 min
Daughter from Danang
55 min
Seabiscuit
55 min
Bataan Rescue
55 min
Murder at Harvard
55 min
