The True Story of Bonnie and Clyde | Full Documentary | American Experience | PBS

The true story of the most famous outlaw couple in U.S. history

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow had been on a year-long crime spree, leaving a trail of dead bodies in their wake, yet were little more than a local curiosity until photos of the couple were discovered at a hastily abandoned hideout in 1933. The image of a beret-clad Bonnie, cigar in mouth, pistol in hand, striking a defiantly provocative pose, would soon achieve near mythic status. Overnight, the country became transfixed by the scandalous images and press accounts of their improbable escapes and illicit romance. Bonnie and Clyde would join the ranks of celebrity gangsters like John Dillinger, ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd, and ‘Baby Face’ Nelson, ‘public enemies’ who emerged during the Great Depression to capture the country’s imagination. But their newfound notoriety would force the outlaw lovers to take even greater risks as the hunt to capture them kicked into overdrive.

Told through interviews with cultural historians, the couple’s descendants and those of the officers who captured them, BONNIE & CLYDE tells the story of the infamous duo’s life and death.

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00:00 Introduction: The Tragic Romance of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
04:11 The Devil’s Back Porch: Clyde Barrow’s Early Life of Petty Crime
08:20 Dreaming of Hollywood: Bonnie Parker’s Early Life and Marriage
11:06 When Bonnie Met Clyde
13:29 The Bloody Ham: How Clyde Barrow Became A Killer in the Eastham Prison Farm
16:59 The Rise of the Gangster in the 1930s
18:21 The Barrow Gang’s Early Robberies
25:19 A Family Affair: Buck and Blanche Barrow Join the Barrow Gang
29:14 The Photos that Made Bonnie & Clyde Famous
31:35 The Car Wreck that Crippled Bonnie Parker
34:31 J. Edgar Hoover and The FBI’s “War on Crime”
38:41 Bonnie & Clyde’s Final Run and the Eastham Breakout
40:49 “Bloody Sunday”: The Easter Sunday Grapevine Killings
43:34 Bonnie & Clyde’s Last Dinner with Their Families
45:35 The Ambush and Deaths of Bonnie & Clyde (May 23, 1934)
49:36 The Funerals and Legacy of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

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