American Experience

Freedom Riders Theatrical Trailer

Preview: Season 23 Episode 11 | 2m 16s

Watch Full Length

The story of the 1961 Freedom Rides through America's Deep South for Civil Rights.

Aired: 05/15/11

Rating: NR

Buy Now:

Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning

Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Consumer Cellular. Major funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Sponsored By:

Related to This Preview

Keep exploring:

She Resisted

Interactive

She Resisted

Celebrate the strategies and tactics of the movement in a new interactive experience. She Resisted explores the final decade of the women’s suffrage movement through its most powerful images, brought to life with color for the first time.

Explore

You Might Also Like

  • American Masters
  • Secrets of the Dead
  • The Roosevelts
  • Baseball
  • The Civil War
  • Origin of Everything