American Experience
Season 20 Episode 9 - Buffalo Bill
In 1886, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show played to over one million people in New York City. It was one of the most elaborate shows on earth. There were cowboys and Indians, sharp shooters, hundreds of horses, buffalo, elk and donkeys, with more than 200 cast members, all moving about in a sweeping western landscape of mountains and plains. It would go on to dazzle crowds in London, Paris, Rome and Barcelona, cementing the legend of the Wild West in the minds of people around the globe. Behind the extravaganza was one man -- a meager plainsman turned international celebrity and frontier hero, whose meteoric rise to fame was made possible only by his genius, and his hucksterism. His name was William Cody, better known to the world as Buffalo Bill.
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
