American Experience: Panama Canal

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the worlds two largest oceans and signaling Americas emergence as a global superpower. This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film using an extraordinary archive of photographs and footage, interviews with canal workers and firsthand accounts of life in the Canal Zone, unravels the remarkable story of one of the worlds most significant technological achievements.

• NOVA: A Man, a Plan, a Canal - Panama
• American Experience - Hoover Dam
• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
• History -- Modern Marvels Panama Canal
• The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs
• American Experience: The Great War DVD
• American Experience: The Gilded Age DVD
• American Experience - The Great San Francisco Earthquake
• American Experience: The 1930s
• Ken Burns America Collection - Brooklyn Bridge