The Nineties

Season

2017

8.1

A TV documentary miniseries chronicling the trends, pop culture, and important events that took place from 1990 to 1999.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The One About TV

The '90s unleashed a wide-range of television from animated hits like South Park and Beavis and Butthead to sitcoms like Seinfeld and Friends to dramas like My So-Called Life and The Sopranos.

S1 • E2

The Comeback Kid

Bill Clinton's presidency began and ended with controversy spanning from an inability to reform America's health care system to a sex scandal that led to impeachment.

S1 • E3

Can We All Get Along?

The Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings; racially fueled events like Al Sharpton and the Crown Height riots; Rodney King and the LA riots; OJ Simpson and his murder trial.

S1 • E4

New World Order

U.S. and international politics in the 1990s including the Gulf War of 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the 1992 U.S. presidential election between George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

S1 • E5

Terrorism Hits Home

Major terrorist acts that occurred in the 1990s are covered, including the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the Olympic Bombing in Centennial Park, the multiple bombings by the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, the Columbine High School shootings, the terrorist acts by Osama Bin Laden, and the Oklahoma City Bombing.

S1 • E6

The Information Age

Society's adoption of the Internet; Microsoft, browser wars, and the antitrust case brought against Microsoft; the Apple saga; online commerce and dot-com retailers such as Amazon and eBay; the hysteria surrounding Y2K.