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American Experience
Season 20 · Episode 12
Roberto Clemente
5.555mApril 21, 2008
Roberto Clemente is an in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination to become baseball’s first Latino superstar. Featuring interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning authors David Maraniss and George F. Will, Clemente’s wife Vera, Baseball Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda, and former teammates, the documentary presents an intimate and revealing portrait of a man whose passion and grace made him a legend.
Episodes
- Episode 1Oswald's Ghost
- Episode 2The Lobotomist
- Episode 3Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies
- Episode 4Grand Central
- Episode 5Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land
- Episode 6Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?
- Episode 7Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement
- Episode 8Kit Carson