American Experience
Season 20 Episode 2 - The Lobotomist
In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine.
Episodes in Season 20
Oswald's Ghost
55 min
The Lobotomist
55 min
Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies
55 min
Grand Central
55 min
Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land
55 min
Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?
55 min
Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement
55 min
Kit Carson
55 min
Buffalo Bill
55 min
Minik: The Lost Eskimo
55 min
Walt Whitman
55 min
Roberto Clemente
55 min
George H.W. Bush (1)
55 min
George H.W. Bush (2)
55 min