An archival Isabel Allende interview adds the California Gold Rush to a week spanning aristocratic marriage and congressional history.
American Experience | PBS
@americanexperiencepbs · The channel on YouTube
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On YouTube, American Experience | PBS has 587,000 subscribers and 109,744,364 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 2,000 subscribers and 1,026,705 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "The True Story of Annie Oakley | Full Documentary | American Experience PBS", with 390,608 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 3,118 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 32 of 37 in category "Documentaries and journalism". On Instagram, @americanexperiencepbs has 146,813 followers.
YouTube: The numbers today
▲ 8,000 in the last 30 days
▲ 4,254,592 in the last 30 days
Instagram: The numbers today
@americanexperiencepbs · The account on Instagram
0.16% of followers
Place on Instagram
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Documentaries and journalism | |
|---|---|---|
| By Instagram followers | 1,644 of 2,442 | 14 of 24 |
Ranked among the channels whose Instagram account is on Trari.
Instagram followers: Documentaries and journalism
Latest posts
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| Post | Type | Posted | Views | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outliving her husband by five decades, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton died on… | Photo | November 9, 2026 | - | 163 | 2 |
| On November 8, 1960, American voters cast their ballots in one of the closest… | Photo | November 8, 2026 | - | 968 | 9 |
| When the 19th Amendment became law in 1920, it did not extend the right to vote… | Photo | November 7, 2026 | - | 482 | 3 |
| "So today we rededicate a part of the airwaves—which belong to all the… | Photo | November 7, 2026 | - | 177 | 3 |
| In 1893, a group of American planters overthrew Hawai’i’s Queen Lili’uokalani,… | Reel | November 6, 2026 | 49,820 | 1,182 | 96 |
| In a four-way race for the presidency, the American people elected Abraham… | Photo | November 6, 2026 | - | 238 | 3 |
| Born around 1831 in what is now South Dakota, Sitting Bull would become one of… | Photo | November 5, 2026 | - | 434 | 3 |
| When polls closed on November 5, 1968, voters in Brooklyn, New York, had elected… | Photo | November 5, 2026 | - | 133 | 3 |
Of the 15 latest posts: 3 Reels, 2 carousels and 10 photos.
As of November 10, 2026
YouTube: What happened lately
October 28, 2026 11x its usual first day The True Story of Annie Oakley | Full Documentary… The video opened at a pace of 66,210 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (6,007). Read the story
American Experience's newly uploaded documentary follows the sharpshooter's rise, with Frank Butler making room for his wife to become the …
The 2014 film about the Wild Bunch went up eight days ago and is close to 300,000 views, while the series marked its first broadcast of Oct…
The video drawing the most views now
The True Story of Annie Oakley | Full Documentary | American Experience PBS
- Video published
- October 27, 2026
- Video views so far
- 390,608
- Video views, pace per day
- 10,653
- Views on its first day
- 98,310
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Documentaries and journalism | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 3,118 of 5,393 | 32 of 37 |
| By views gained this week | 2,668 of 5,274 | 17 of 37 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 2,687 of 5,043 | 17 of 35 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 1.1% of all views the category's channels gained this week
- Subscriber growth this week
- 0.3% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel
Subscribers in the category Documentaries and journalism
Views gained this week in the category Documentaries and journalism
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 579,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 587,000 subscribers
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 105,567,955 views → November 11, 2026: 109,744,364 views · average: 144,014 views a day
YouTube: The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views | Per day | First day | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The overthrow and annexation of Hawaii | November 6, 2026 | 1:41 short | 5,510 | -72 | 2,431 | 263 | 20 |
Bandits, Prostitutes, and Preachers: Isabel Allende on the … | November 5, 2026 | 40:37 | 10,699 | 615 | 5,650 | 109 | 15 |
He was held hostage for 444 days | November 5, 2026 | 1:43 short | 3,235 | 94 | 1,944 | 144 | 17 |
She played chess, not checkers with her daughter’s future | November 2, 2026 | 2:01 short | 16,097 | 652 | 6,548 | 702 | 17 |
How the 1994 “Republican Revolution” happened | October 30, 2026 | 1:24 short | 8,056 | 79 | 3,878 | 230 | 25 |
Americans thought they were under attack 🛸 | October 29, 2026 | 1:45 short | 3,338 | 13 | 1,419 | 213 | 13 |
🗽America almost fumbled the Statue of Liberty | October 28, 2026 | 0:57 short | 7,230 | 29 | 2,828 | 251 | 12 |
The True Story of Annie Oakley | Full Documentary | America… | October 27, 2026 | 53:33 | 390,608 | 10,653 | 98,310 | 4,000 | 262 |
Could her aim have prevented WWI?! | October 23, 2026 | 1:04 short | 6,130 | 28 | 3,302 | 261 | 5 |
When gaining one pound could cost you your job | October 21, 2026 | 1:27 short | 5,867 | 10 | 3,792 | 285 | 25 |
The 1982 midterm elections | October 19, 2026 | 1:26 short | 29,335 | 67 | 8,538 | 965 | 100 |
When the White House got its name | October 17, 2026 | 1:14 short | 108,851 | 173 | 14,087 | 2,687 | 187 |
The Nobel Peace Prize that shocked the world | October 16, 2026 | 1:10 short | 6,676 | 12 | 3,117 | 258 | 25 |
How the U.S. survived the 1900s bubonic plague | October 15, 2026 | 1:32 short | 14,292 | 27 | 7,367 | 464 | 10 |
How L.A.’s toxic smog changed America forever | Full Docume… | October 13, 2026 | 53:30 | 212,206 | 958 | 40,417 | 2,112 | 272 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 15.6 in the category: 19.8
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.2 in the category: 1.7
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 4,483 views
- short vs long
- 12 short (up to 3 minutes), 3 long
average views per short video: 17,884
average views per long video: 204,504
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
The Gilded Age | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | P… | October 24, 2023 | 1:53:12 | 13,485,985 |
FDR and Policing the World: Hitler's Threat | December 22, 2011 | 2:05 | 10,215,059 |
The Eugenics Crusade | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIEN… | March 5, 2024 | 1:53:58 | 6,007,943 |
Nazi Town, USA | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | P… | April 2, 2024 | 53:20 | 4,273,125 |
The Brief, Violent Life of Billy The Kid | Full Documentary… | September 1, 2026 | 53:37 | 2,488,690 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
Lady Bird Johnson on the assassination of JFK #shorts #hist… | November 22, 2024 | 1:00 | 786,743 |
🇺🇸 When the President couldn't move into the White House … | September 30, 2024 | 1:00 | 507,120 |
The most powerful woman in Gilded Age New York | THE GILDED… | November 16, 2023 | 1:00 | 448,542 |
Lyndon Johnson was incapable of relaxation. #shorts #histor… | October 9, 2024 | 1:00 | 433,895 |
One of the worst civil engineering failures in American his… | May 27, 2026 | 1:32 | 315,017 |
YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Video taking offThe True Story of Annie Oakley | Full Documentary… The video opened at a pace of 66,210 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (6,007).Read the story
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 316,121 views a day, 2.3 times a normal day (139,073).
Stories
An archival Isabel Allende interview adds the California Gold Rush to a week spanning aristocratic marriage and congressional history.
American Experience's newly uploaded documentary follows the sharpshooter's rise, with Frank Butler making room for his wife to become the …
The 2014 film about the Wild Bunch went up eight days ago and is close to 300,000 views, while the series marked its first broadcast of Oct…

























