Season eighteen of the television program American Experience originally aired on the PBS network in the United States on October 17, 2005 and concluded on May 22, 2006. The season contained 13 new episodes and began with the film Two Days in October.
| American Experience | |
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| Season 18 | |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Original network | PBS |
| Original release | October 17, 2005 (2005-10-17) – May 22, 2006 (2006-05-22) |
| Season chronology | |
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| List of episodes | |
| No. overall | No.in season | Title | Directed by | Categories | Original air date | |
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| 206 | 1 | "Two Days in October"[1] | Robert Kenner | Politics, War | October 17, 2005 (2005-10-17) | |
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The film chronicles the Vietnam War protests and Dow riots at the University of Wisconsin and the Battle of Ong Thanh in 1967. The film is in part based on the book, They Marched Into Sunlight, by David Maraniss.
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| 207 | 2 | "Race to the Moon"[2] | Kevin Michael Kertscher | Technology | October 31, 2005 (2005-10-31) | |
| 208 | 3 | "Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (Part 1)"[3] | Stephen Ives | Popular Culture, The American West | November 14, 2005 (2005-11-14) | |
| 209 | 4 | "Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (Part 2)" | Stephen Ives | Popular Culture, The American West | November 15, 2005 (2005-11-15) | |
| 210 | 5 | "John & Abigail Adams"[4] | Peter Jones | Biographies, Politics, Presidents | January 23, 2006 (2006-01-23) | |
| 211 | 6 | "The Nuremberg Trials"[5] | Michael Kloft | Politics, War | January 30, 2006 (2006-01-30) | |
| 212 | 7 | "Jesse James"[6] | Mark Zwonitzer | Biographies, Popular Culture | February 6, 2006 (2006-02-06) | |
| 213 | 8 | "Hijacked"[7] | Ilan Ziv | Politics | February 27, 2006 (2006-02-27) | |
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The film recounts the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings and subsequent destruction of four commercial airliners.
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| 214 | 9 | "Eugene O'Neill"[8] | Ric Burns | Biographies, Popular Culture | March 27, 2006 (2006-03-27) | |
| 215 | 10 | "The Boy in the Bubble"[9] | Barak Goodman & John Maggio | Biographies, Technology | April 10, 2006 (2006-04-10) | |
| 216 | 11 | "The Alaska Pipeline"[10] | Mark Davis | Technology, The Natural Environment | April 24, 2006 (2006-04-24) | |
| 217 | 12 | "Annie Oakley"[11] | Riva Freifeld | Biographies, Popular Culture, The American West | May 8, 2006 (2006-05-08) | |
| 218 | 13 | "The Man Behind Hitler"[12] | Lutz Hachmeister | Biographies, War | May 22, 2006 (2006-05-22) | |