American Experience
Season 7 Episode 5 - Telegrams from the Dead
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
For 40 years, a new religion called spiritualism affected the nation as no other ever had. Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum, Frederick Douglass, senators, and scientists argued over the discoveries of the spirit world as revealed through mediums. Congress debated whether to provide $40,000 to research the feasibility of using the new wireless technology to reach the other world. But by 1880, as one spectacular fraud after another was revealed, the movement began to fade.
Episodes in Season 7
1
FDR (1): The Center of the World (1882-1921)
55 min
2
FDR (2): Fear Itself (1922-1933)
55 min
3
FDR (3): The Grandest Job in the World (1933-1940)
55 min
4
FDR (4): The Juggler (1940-1945)
55 min
5
Telegrams from the Dead
55 min
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6
Midnight Ramble
55 min
7
Battle of the Bulge
55 min
10
One Woman, One Vote (1)
55 min
11
One Woman, One Vote (2)
55 min
12
The Way West (1): Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1845-1864)
55 min
13
The Way West (2): The Approach of Civilization (1865-1869)
55 min
14
The Way West (3): The War for the Black Hills (1870-1876)
55 min
15
The Way West (4): Ghost Dance (1877-1893)
55 min
