Colorado Experience

Born with two strikes against her, Dr. Justina Ford overcame barriers of race and gender to become the first African-American woman to practice medicine in Colorado and delivered over 7,000 babies.

Colorado Experience is a historical documentary series produced by Rocky Mountain PBS celebrating the people, places and events that shaped the state. Podcasts in this playlist are derived from the first season of the Emmy Award-winning history series.

Learn more and watch full episodes online at www.rmpbs.org/ColoradoExperience

Meet the woman whose lasting legacy on education lives today, even as her murder remains an unsolved mystery.

Colorado Experience is a historical documentary series produced by Rocky Mountain PBS celebrating the people, places and events that shaped the state. Podcasts in this playlist are derived from the third season of the Emmy Award-winning history series.

Learn more and watch full episodes online at www.rmpbs.org/ColoradoExperience

Delve into 1931 when a winter blizzard took the lives of five children who were stranded in a school bus.

Colorado Experience is a historical documentary series produced by Rocky Mountain PBS celebrating the people, places and events that shaped the state. Podcasts in this playlist are derived from the third season of the Emmy Award-winning history series.

Learn more and watch full episodes online at www.rmpbs.org/ColoradoExperience

Discover the hardships, innovation and tenacity of the women caught up in Colorado’s mining bug.

Colorado Experience is a historical documentary series produced by Rocky Mountain PBS celebrating the people, places and events that shaped the state. Podcasts in this playlist are derived from the third season of the Emmy Award-winning history series.

Learn more and watch full episodes online at www.rmpbs.org/ColoradoExperience

Marvel at Colorado’s most famous tunnel, the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel, and discover the tragedies it has seen.

Colorado Experience is a historical documentary series produced by Rocky Mountain PBS celebrating the people, places and events that shaped the state. Podcasts in this playlist are derived from the third season of the Emmy Award-winning history series.

Learn more and watch full episodes online at www.rmpbs.org/ColoradoExperience

Discover the glamorous Hollywood-style movie theatres that served as social hubs from 1910 to the 1950s.

Colorado Experience is a historical documentary series produced by Rocky Mountain PBS celebrating the people, places and events that shaped the state. Podcasts in this playlist are derived from the third season of the Emmy Award-winning history series.

Learn more and watch full episodes online at www.rmpbs.org/ColoradoExperience

Meet the controversial Mayor whose “City Beautiful” vision built Denver’s Civic Center Park and parkway system in the late 1890s.

Colorado Experience is a historical documentary series produced by Rocky Mountain PBS celebrating the people, places and events that shaped the state. Podcasts in this playlist are derived from the third season of the Emmy Award-winning history series.

Learn more and watch full episodes online at www.rmpbs.org/ColoradoExperience

750,000 participants from 72 countries convened in Denver in the summer of 1993 for the World Youth Day Conference and a visit from the Pope.

Colorado Experience is a historical documentary series produced by Rocky Mountain PBS celebrating the people, places and events that shaped the state. Podcasts in this playlist are derived from the second season of the Emmy Award-winning history series.

Learn more and watch full episodes online at www.rmpbs.org/ColoradoExperience

In 1951, in the early days of the Cold War, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced the construction of a new facility in Arvada, Colorado, 16 miles from Metro Denver. Although the general public was largely unaware of what went on at the site, the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant manufactured the plutonium “trigger” used in every nuclear weapon created in the United States. For the next several decades, Rocky Flats was a major stimulus to the local economy, providing thousands of jobs to area residents. But it was also a source of increasing controversy, as reports of radioactive contamination affecting the local environment and the truth about what was really going on at Rocky Flats became public. Colorado’s Cold War explores the legacy of Rocky Flats and the local impact of a global conflict.

Colorado Experience is a historical documentary series produced by Rocky Mountain PBS celebrating the people, places and events that shaped the state. Podcasts in this playlist are derived from the second season of the Emmy Award-winning history series.

Learn more and watch full episodes online at www.rmpbs.org/ColoradoExperience

The Dust Bowl was a dark and dreary time for many Coloradans. Between 1862 and 1934, the federal government granted 1.6 million homesteads to Americans under the Homesteading Act of 1862 and 1909’s Enlarged Homestead Act. With promises of a tree-filled oasis, families who moved west hoped to reap the benefits of the farming boom. Their luck changed as they found themselves in the middle of one of the largest environmental disasters to hit the plains. This Colorado Experience episode follows one Colorado family who moved west only to find themselves in the middle of one of the largest environmental disasters to hit the plains.

Colorado Experience is a historical documentary series produced by Rocky Mountain PBS celebrating the people, places and events that shaped the state. Podcasts in this playlist are derived from the second season of the Emmy Award-winning history series.

Learn more and watch full episodes online at www.rmpbs.org/ColoradoExperience