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American Experience: Season 9

9x09 Around the World in 72 Days
TV-PG

  • 1997-04-29T01:00:00Z on PBS
  • 55m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
At the age of nineteen, Nellie Bly talked her way into an improbable job on a newspaper, then went on to become "the best reporter in America." She was serious and spunky. To expose abuse of the mentally ill, she had herself committed. But when she travelled around the world in just 72 days, beating Jules Verne's fictional escapade, she turned herself into a world celebrity.
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