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Where To Stream American Experience Season 15 Episode 11

Seabiscuit

On New Year's Eve, 1938, columnist Walter Winchell published his annual list of the year's top ten newsmakers. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was among those mentioned. So was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The tenth spot, however, went to a horse. In the 1930s, when Americans longed to escape the grim realities of Depression era, Seabiscuit became a working man's hero. At the height of his career, Seabiscuit became a national obsession. His name was used to...