American Experience - Season 1

American Experience - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes16
DatesOct 4, 1988 - Jan 17, 1989
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Episodes

The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Season 1Episode 160 min

The Great San Francisco Earthquake

From Enrico Caruso to the ordinary San Franciscan, this film presents vivid memories of those trapped in the terrifying event of 1906. Four hundred eighty square blocks were reduced to rubble; thousands were killed, tens of thousands left homeless. Then the heroic struggle to rebuild a city from the ashes began.

Oct 4, 1988
Radio Bikini
Season 1Episode 260 min

Radio Bikini

The story of atomic bomb research after World War II and how above-ground testing led to the evacuation of a previously-populated atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

Oct 11, 1988
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
Season 1Episode 360 min

Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo

The US government attempts to claim lands that have value from Native American dwellers.

Oct 18, 1988
Not So Wild a Dream
Season 1Episode 460 min

Not So Wild a Dream

Mid 20th century America through the eyes of famous journalist Eric Sevareid.

Oct 25, 1988
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Season 1Episode 560 min

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

A treatment of women's contributions to the World War II defense industry including interviews with women who participated.

Nov 1, 1988
Do You Mean There are Still Real Cowboys
Season 1Episode 660 min

Do You Mean There are Still Real Cowboys

A visit to working ranches in western Wyoming to examine the lifestyle of modern-day cowboys and compare it to the romantic historical notions.

Nov 8, 1988
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up-Close
Season 1Episode 760 min

Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up-Close

An intimate portrait of the Kennedy brothers and their confrontation with Alabama Governor George Wallace when he defied the courts by refusing to integrate the University in 1963. The film offers unprecedented access to the Oval Office as well as to strategy meetings held by Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
Nov 15, 1988
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Season 1Episode 860 min

Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

The story of a tragic collision of two civilizations, each with startlingly different views of one another. In 1886, 5,000 U.S. troops mobilized to capture this one man and his band of followers, who by refusing to move onto a reservation, defied and eluded federal authorities.
Nov 22, 1988
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
Season 1Episode 960 min

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited

An updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, an American classic.
Nov 29, 1988
That Rhythm, Those Blues
Season 1Episode 1060 min

That Rhythm, Those Blues

The evolution of rhythm and blues through the careers of singers Ruth Brown and Charles Brown, from the 1940s into the 50s, with contemporary performances by both.
Dec 6, 1988
The Radio Priest
Season 1Episode 1160 min

The Radio Priest

Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from Michigan, uses the new power of radio to become one of the first media stars; every Sunday he would broadcast his message railing against the nation's economic and social system to millions of listeners caught in the grip of the Depression.
Dec 13, 1988
Hearts and Hands
Season 1Episode 1260 min

Hearts and Hands

The design and art of quilting yields intimate clues about the lives of 19th century women, who stitched their personal and political stories into these artifacts of history.
Dec 20, 1988
Views of a Vanishing Frontier
Season 1Episode 1360 min

Views of a Vanishing Frontier

The journey of Prince Maximilian, German naturalist, and artist Karl Bodmer, who explored the Mississippi River area from 1832-34, meticulously documenting in paintings and journals the landscape, plants and life of Native Americans.
Dec 27, 1988
Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
Season 1Episode 1460 min

Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings

A profile of the author and photographer Eudora Welty and her impressions of the South after the turn of the 20th century. She recalls her childhood and life in Jackson, Mississippi in a 1987 BBC film based on her 1984 autobiographical work.

Jan 3, 1989
The World That Moses Built
Season 1Episode 1560 min

The World That Moses Built

From the late 1920s through the 1960s, Robert Moses held almost total power over the landscape of New York. He built bridges, highways, Jones Beach, Lincoln Center and the United Nations, some of the most ambitious public works ever conceived, and some of the most controversial.
Jan 10, 1989
Sins of Our Mothers
Season 1Episode 1660 min

Sins of Our Mothers

A Gothic tale of sin and redemption in 19th century New England. A small town in Maine reacts to the unconventional behavior of one of its young residents, a woman named Emeline Gurney. A fascinating examination of small town mores.
Jan 17, 1989

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