American Experience — Season 1, Episode 9: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited

Episode synopsis

An updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, an American classic.

About American Experience

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Great San Francisco Earthquake
• E2Radio Bikini
• E3Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
• E4Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
• E5The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
• E6Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
• E7Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
• E8Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
• E10That Rhythm, Those Blues
• E11The Radio Priest
• E12Hearts and Hands
• E13Views of a Vanishing Frontier