American Experience Season 1

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1x01 The Great San Francisco Earthquake aired Oct 04, 1988

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 sq... read more

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1x02 Radio Bikini aired Oct 11, 1988

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.

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1x03 Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo aired Oct 18, 1988

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

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1x04 Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream aired Oct 25, 1988

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

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1x05 The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter aired Nov 01, 1988

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

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1x06 Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys? aired Nov 08, 1988

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

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1x07 Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close aired Nov 15, 1988

John Kennedy and George Wallace clash over questions of civil rights in early 1960s Alabama.

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1x08 Geronimo and the Apache Resistance aired Nov 22, 1988

Account of the famous Native American leader's battle against the US in the American southwest from the viewpoints of historians and modern Apaches.

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1x09 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited aired Nov 29, 1988

Life on Alabama tenant farms in the 1930s with comparisons to the living situation today.

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1x10 That Rhythm, Those Blues aired Dec 06, 1988

The growth of rhythm and blues music and its eventual acceptance by mainstream audiences in the 1950s.

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1x11 The Radio Priest aired Dec 13, 1988

A Catholic priest (Charles Coughlin) takes to the radio airwaves in the 1930s and broadcasts his views on the condition of the country.

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1x12 Hearts and Hands aired Dec 20, 1988

An examination of the women of 19th century America - as suffragists, abolitionists, authors - and the record they and many others left through quilt-making.

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1x13 Views of a Vanishing Frontier aired Dec 27, 1988

A German prince and a Swiss painter interpret the United States in a new light during a visit to the American west during the 1830s.

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1x14 Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings aired Jan 03, 1989

The work of photographer and author Eudora Welty and her impressions of the south after the turn of the 20th century.

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1x15 The World That Moses Built aired Jan 10, 1989

A biography of Robert Moses, single-minded visionary behind many of New York City's largest and most expensive construction projects.

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1x16 Sins of Our Mothers aired Jan 17, 1989

A tale of a woman in the 1800s who risked scorn by marrying a man much younger than herself, and a person later found to be her biological son from long ago.

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