American Experience
Season 18 Episode 5 - John and Abigail Adams
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
An engrossing portrait of the second U.S. president and first lady, costars Simon Russell Beale and Linda Emond. Included: the friendship (and enmity) between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (James Barbour), who both died on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence; the Adamses' “great love story”; their bouts with depression; his troubled presidency. Interspersed are comments from historians.
Episodes in Season 18
1
Two Days in October
55 min
2
Race to the Moon
55 min
3
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (1): Sin City
55 min
4
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (2): American Mecca
55 min
5
John and Abigail Adams
55 min
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6
The Nuremberg Trials
55 min
7
Jesse James
55 min
8
Hijacked
55 min
9
Eugene O'Neill
55 min
10
The Boy in the Bubble
55 min
11
The Alaska Pipeline
55 min
12
Annie Oakley
55 min
13
The Man Behind Hitler
55 min
