American Experience season 35

Season thirty-five of the television program American Experience aired on the PBS network in the United States on January 3, 2023 and concluded on October 30, 2023. The season contained nine new episodes and began with the film The Lie Detector.

American Experience
Season 35
No. of episodes	9
Release
Original network	PBS
Original release	January 3 (2023-01-03) – October 30, 2023 (2023-10-30)
Season chronology
List of episodes

Episodes

See also: List of American Experience episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
365	1	"The Lie Detector"[1]	Rob Rapley	Rob Rapley	January 3, 2023 (2023-01-03)
Narrated by Andre Braugher. This was his last television role before his death in December 2023.
366	2	"Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space"[2]	Tracy Heather Strain	Tracy Heather Strain	January 17, 2023 (2023-01-17)
Narrated by Vanessa Williams. Voice of Zora Neale Hurston: Bahni Turpin.
367	3	"Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History"[3]	Stephen Ives	Stephen Ives	February 20, 2023 (2023-02-20)
368	4	"The Movement and the 'Madman'"[4]	Stephen Talbot	(none credited)[5]	March 28, 2023 (2023-03-28)
369	5	"The Sun Queen"[6]	Amanda Pollak	Gene Tempest	April 4, 2023 (2023-04-04)
370	6	"Casa Susanna"[7]	Sébastien Lifshitz	Sébastien Lifshitz	June 27, 2023 (2023-06-27)
371	7	"The Busing Battleground"[8]	Sharon Grimberg & Cyndee Readdean	Sharon Grimberg	September 11, 2023 (2023-09-11)
372	8	"The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools"[9]	Douglas A. Blackmon & Sam Pollard	Douglas A. Blackmon	September 12, 2023 (2023-09-12)
373	9	"The War on Disco"[10]	Lisa Quijano Wolfinger	Rushmore Denooyer	October 30, 2023 (2023-10-30)