PBS documentary on Walt Disney won't skirt darker side

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Walt Disney was a filmmaking icon and entrepreneur who pioneered animation with his Mickey Mouse cartoons and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and started a family theme-park empire in 1955 with Disneyland. But behind the genius was someone more complex, whose shrewd business sense and small-town boy-made-good persona masked a flawed, sometimes unlikable figure, explored in PBS' four-hour American Experience documentary Walt Disney (Monday and Tuesday, 9 p.m. ET/PT).

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