American Experience
Season 18 Episode 12 - Annie Oakley
An on-target profile of the sharpshooter (1860-1926) who was “the first American woman ever to become a superstar.” Included: Oakley, at 15, winning a shooting match with future husband Frank Butler; achieving stardom with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; filing libel suits against a number of newspapers for reporting that she was a drug addict; teaching thousands of women to shoot, while opposing women's suffrage.
Episodes in Season 18
Two Days in October
55 min
Race to the Moon
55 min
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (1): Sin City
55 min
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (2): American Mecca
55 min
John and Abigail Adams
55 min
The Nuremberg Trials
55 min
Jesse James
55 min
Hijacked
55 min
Eugene O'Neill
55 min
The Boy in the Bubble
55 min
The Alaska Pipeline
55 min
Annie Oakley
55 min
The Man Behind Hitler
55 min