Latest Americanexperience Podcast Episodes
Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 - The Perfect Storm
Factual America - July 28, 2022 18:49 - 48 minutesWoodstock '99 was supposed to be a millennium defining celebration of peace, love and great music. Instead, the festival degenerated into an epic trainwreck of fires, riots and destruction. Utilizing rare insider footage, and eyewitness interviews with an impressive list of festival staffers, ...
Menudo: Forever Young - The Rise and Fall of the First International Boy Band
Factual America - July 21, 2022 17:11 - 50 minutesMenudo was arguably the first international boy band and one of the most successful. Starting from humble roots in 1970s Puerto Rico, the group conquered the pop world in the 1980s and 1990s. As the boys grew older and their voices started changing, they soon discovered that they were easil...
Menudo: Forever Young - Rise and Fall of the First International Boy Band
Factual America - July 21, 2022 17:11 - 50 minutesMenudo was arguably the first international boy band and one of the most successful. Starting from humble roots in 1970s Puerto Rico, the group conquered the pop world in the 1980s and 1990s, taking their brand of Latin pop worldwide. But as the boys grew older and their voices started changi...
Facing Nolan Ryan, the Baseball Legend
Factual America - July 14, 2022 16:45 - 42 minutesFacing Nolan captures the life of Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, arguably one of the greatest pitchers of all time. His 51 records and 27 seasons across four decades are the stuff of lore. It wasn't always so. Even as the Ryan Express was chalking up strikeouts and no-hitters like no one bef...
Girl in the Picture: A 25-Year Mystery Solved
Factual America - July 06, 2022 20:10 - 30 minutesIn Netflix's latest true crime documentary Girl in the Picture, a woman named Sharon Marshall is found dying by a road, leaves behind a son, a man claiming to be her husband—and a mystery that unfolds like a nightmare. The film tells an incredibly tragic tale and the incredible story of how the ...
Keep Sweet: The Cult of Warren Jeffs and FLDS
Factual America - June 30, 2022 16:40 - 37 minutesThe Netflix docuseries Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey tells the chilling story of Warren Jeffs and his rise in the Fundamentalist Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), an offshoot of the mainstream Mormon church. FLDS members practice polygamy and assign women husbands by divine revelation ...
Scouting for Girls: Fashion's Darkest Secret
Factual America - June 23, 2022 17:00 - 54 minutesThree-part docuseries Scouting for Girls: Fashion's Darkest Secret reveals how a group of men behind the world's most successful modelling agencies were involved in a darker side of the industry. It exposes how modelling agents like John Casablancas, Jean-Luc Brunel, Claude Haddad and Gérald Mar...
Elon Musk's Crash Course in Self-Driving Technology
Factual America - June 09, 2022 17:00 - 43 minutesBased on reporting by New York Times journalists Cade Metz and Neil Boudet, Elon Musk's Crash Course zeroes in on Elon Musk, the world's richest person and CEO of Tesla, and his claims about self-driving cars. The latest in a series of films from The New York Times Presents is directed and pro...
How Fiddler on the Roof Made it to Hollywood
Factual America - June 03, 2022 07:01 - 47 minutesFiddler's Journey to the Big Screen (2022) captures a bygone era of early television and blockbuster Hollywood musicals. It also shines a light on the incredible career of fellow filmmaker Norman Jewison. Jewison had critical success over more than three decades, but his crowning achievement ...
Deep in the Heart of Texas Wildlife
Factual America - May 27, 2022 19:39 - 1 hourDeep in the Heart (2022) is a visually stunning portrait of Texas, told through the eyes of the wildlife species themselves. Narrated by Texas icon Matthew McConaughey and featuring state of the art cinematography, this documentary brings to life one of the world's most diverse, but possibly les...
Hold Your Fire: A Call for Restorative Justice in the US
Factual America - May 11, 2022 18:29 - 33 minutesDocumentary film ‘Hold Your Fire’ provides us with a riveting account of a hostage situation in Brooklyn in January 1973, when four young African American men were caught stealing guns in a sporting goods store and took a dozen hostages. The police assumed that they were members of the Black ...
The Invisible Pilot: Stranger than Fiction
Factual America - May 06, 2022 19:51 - 43 minutesThe Invisible Pilot is an HBO Max Docuseries that captures the incredible story of Gary Betzner, an Arkansas crop duster who died under mysterious circumstances. Or did he? The mystery around this man's death would be more than enough for a compelling doc. But that is only the beginning of a s...
In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
Factual America - April 28, 2022 18:00 - 1 hourLegendary rock band King Crimson has been inspiring generations of musicians for over 50 years. After starting off with great success in 1969 in London, the band effectively split up in the same year, which then started a process of fragmentation and reinvention that has continued for 52 years. ...
Our Great National Parks with Barrack Obama on Netflix
Factual America - April 14, 2022 17:46 - 37 minutesOur Great National Parks is a breathtaking Netflix original docuseries, executive produced and narrated by President Barack Obama, who protected more public lands and waters than any other US president in history. Watch the full episode at https://www.alamopictures.co.uk/podcast/our-great-nati...
I Am Here: The Most Inspirational Holocaust Survivor
Factual America - April 06, 2022 18:03 - 23 minutesElla Blumenthal is one of the oldest living survivors of the Holocaust. Despite living through one of history's darkest chapters, she brings a joy to life that few can match. On her 98th birthday, however, Ella reveals to close friends and family profound memories of her incredible survival in a...
The Andy Warhol Diaries on Screen
Factual America - March 30, 2022 17:33 - 46 minutesAndy Warhol is arguably the most famous artist of his generation, and his work still resonates today, 35 years after his untimely death. But what do we know about the man behind the cultural icon? Acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Rossi is the writer and director of the Netflix docuseries, The Andy W...
Oscars Short Documentary Nominees
Factual America - March 24, 2022 06:50 - 41 minutesIn this special episode three of the five nominees for this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) join us to discuss their films. When We Were Bullies, by the Award-winning director and writer Jay Rosenblatt, follows Jay as he tracks down his fifth-grade class and their t...
The Downfall of Boeing
Factual America - March 16, 2022 18:00 - 41 minutesOnce the pride of American technological know-how, Boeing took a wrong turn toward achieving the bottom line at all costs, even if it meant keeping pilots in the dark and putting passengers' lives at risk. In the end, two Boeing 737 MAX airliners crashed, killing 346 people. Boeing's PR campai...
Happiness is a Journey: The Unseen America
Factual America - March 09, 2022 21:55 - 53 minutesIvete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan are award-winning filmmakers. Their documentary films have premiered at Sundance and won multiple awards including the Directors Fortnight best short film prize at Cannes. Patrick and Ivete's body of work focuses on the seldom seen and forgotten parts of American ...
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road - Director's Take
Factual America - March 02, 2022 17:56 - 58 minutesBrian Wilson was the co-founder of the seminal 60s rock group The Beach Boys, as the leader and creative genius behind the band’s many hits. Brian Wilson has influenced generations of pop stars, including Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Taylor Hawkins and other pop royalty. Award-winning docum...
Reframing Marilyn Monroe's Legacy
Factual America - February 23, 2022 18:00 - 40 minutesMarilyn Monroe almost requires no introduction. The iconic star of the silver screen still resonates with the viewing public even 60 years after her untimely death. But do we need to rethink her legacy or how she's been portrayed? Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Karen McGann certainly thinks s...
Secrets of Playboy: Hugh Hefner's Dark Empire | A&E Docuseries
Factual America - February 16, 2022 13:00 - 49 minutesSecrets of Playboy (2021) documents the lived experiences of Playboy playmates, the Playboy Bunnies, and employees of the Playboy empire, and the abuse they went through at the hands of its founder Hugh Hefner. Award-winning filmmaker Alexandra Dean joins us to discuss the making of this 10...
Writing with Fire: Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary
Factual America - February 09, 2022 07:47 - 50 minutesWriting with Fire (2021) is an inspiring story about India's only newspaper run by Dalit, low-caste women. Armed with smartphones and tenacity, chief reporter Meera Devi and her journalists break traditions as they break stories and tackle India's biggest issues. In the process, they are redefin...
Neymar: The Perfect Chaos - The Director's Perspective
Factual America - February 02, 2022 09:31 - 41 minutesNeymar: The Perfect Chaos, currently streaming on Netflix, tells the story of the beloved but often criticised footballer Neymar, the highs and lows of his personal life, and his brilliant football career. Award-winning filmmaker David Charles Rodrigues joins us to discuss the film and reveals...
Dear Rider: Snowboarding Legend Jake Burton
Factual America - January 18, 2022 15:32 - 43 minutesHBO's original documentary Dear Rider tells the inspirational story of Jake Burton Carpenter, who pioneered the sport of snowboarding. Fernando Villena, award-winning filmmaker and the director of Dear Rider, discusses Jake’s life as a snowboarding legend. The film shows how Jake took his fav...
Hell or High Seas: Adventure Therapy for U.S. Military Veterans
Factual America - January 12, 2022 07:00 - 45 minutesHell or High Seas (2021) follows U.S. Navy veteran Taylor Grieger and writer Stephen O’Shea on their two-year adventure sailing around Cape Horn, in some of the world’s most treacherous waters. The purpose of this extreme journey was to raise awareness about PTSD and the challenges facing vetera...
Chasing Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's Alleged Accomplice
Factual America - December 20, 2021 17:13 - 1 hourJoining us is Vicky Ward, a New York Times bestselling author, investigative journalist and the host and co-producer of Chasing Ghislaine. In 2002 Vicky conducted one of the few interviews ever given by Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender. Vicky has now turned...
The First Wave: The Human Face of COVID-19
Factual America - December 15, 2021 11:50 - 36 minutesThe National Geographic documentary The First Wave captures the harrowing first four months of the Covid-19 pandemic as it played out in one of New York City’s hardest-hit hospital systems. Joining us is Matthew Heineman, an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker who directed and ...
Listening to Kenny G, All-Time Best-Selling Instrumentalist
Factual America - December 07, 2021 09:44 - 32 minutesKenny G is the best-selling instrumentalist of all time, but why does he elicit such heartfelt, negative criticism from some listeners? Penny Lane’s new HBO documentary Listening to Kenny G shows the world-famous saxophonist speaking candidly about his musical background, his stringent work et...
Mothers of the Revolution: The Women Who Ended the Cold War
Factual America - December 01, 2021 16:26 - 50 minutesOn September 5th 1981 a group of women came together to change the world. These women marched from Wales to Berkshire to protest nuclear weapons being kept at RAF Greenham Common, a British airbase. Feature-length documentary Mothers of the Revolution (2021) tells the true story of the Greenha...
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