Season
- Season 0 2003-01-15
- Season 1 1988-10-04
- Season 2 1989-10-03
- Season 3 1990-08-27
- Season 4 1991-09-30
- Season 5 1992-09-20
- Season 6 1993-10-27
- Season 7 1994-10-12
- Season 8 1995-10-16
- Season 9 1996-10-06
- Season 10 1997-10-05
- Season 11 1998-11-18
- Season 12 1999-11-14
- Season 13 2000-10-17
- Season 14 2001-09-10
- Season 15 2002-11-11
- Season 16 2003-09-08
- Season 17 2004-10-04
- Season 18 2005-10-17
- Season 19 2006-10-02
- Season 20 2008-01-14
- Season 21 2009-01-26
- Season 22 2009-11-02
- Season 23 2010-10-11
- Season 24 2012-01-10
- Season 25 2013-01-08
- Season 26 2014-01-07
- Season 27 2015-01-06
- Season 28 2016-01-19
- Season 29 2017-01-10
- Season 30 2018-01-09
- Season 31 2019-01-15
- Season 32 2020-01-06
- Season 33 2021-01-11
- Season 34 2022-02-07
- Season 35 2023-01-03
- Season 36 2024-01-23
- Season 37 1970-01-01
Season 37 Episode
- Season 15 Jimmy Carter (1): Jimmy Who?
- Season 15 Jimmy Carter (2): Hostage
- Season 15 Chicago: City of the Century (1): Mudhole to Metropolis
- Season 15 Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun
- Season 15 Chicago: City of the Century (3): Battle for Chicago
- Season 15 The Murder of Emmett Till
- Season 15 Transcontinental Railroad
- Season 15 Partners of the Heart
- Season 15 The Pill
- Season 15 Daughter from Danang
- Season 15 Seabiscuit
- Season 15 Bataan Rescue
- Season 15 Murder at Harvard
American Experience - Season 15 Episode 9 The Pill
7.50 55 minutes Charting the development of an oral contraceptive during the 1950s and its effect on "the sexual revolution" of the '60s. It was enormous. Says Sylvia Clark, who grew up before the pill was available: "Women began to see themselves for the first time in all of history as economically self-sustaining." The hour examines reasons why, as it profiles the pill's key figures, including biologist Gregory Pincus and gynecologist John Rock; heiress Katharine Dexter McCormick, who financed the research; and Margaret Sanger, the activist who spearheaded it. Among Sanger's motivations: her own mother, who had 18 pregnancies (seven of them miscarriages) and died at 49.
