The Eugenics Crusade | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS
Uncover the shocking history of the early 20th-century campaign to breed a “better” American race.
THE EUGENICS CRUSADE tells the story of the unlikely—and largely unknown—project to breed a better American race, tracing the rise of a movement that turned a scientific theory of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control. Populated by figures both celebrated and obscure, it is an often revelatory portrait of an America at once strange and eerily familiar.