American Experience, Billy Graham

Monday, May 17, at 9 PM

Repeats Tuesday, May 18, at 2 AM

Also airs on Fusion on Saturday, May 22, at 7 PM

Explore the life and career of one of the best-known and most influential Christian leaders of the 20th century. From humble beginnings on a North Carolina farm, Billy Graham rose to prominence with a fiery preaching style and folksy charm. His fundamentalist sermons harnessed the apocalyptic anxieties of a post-atomic world, exhorting audiences to adopt the only possible solution: devoting one’s life to Christ. 

An international celebrity by the age of 30, he built a media empire, preached to millions worldwide and had the ear of tycoons, presidents and royalty. “Billy Graham” explores the preacher’s extraordinary influence on American politics and culture from 1949 to 1980, interweaving the voices of historians, scholars, witnesses, followers, friends, family and Graham himself to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of a singular figure in the American experience.