• 1988
  • TV-PG
  • 3h 43m
American Experience

Summary A series showcasing documentaries on American history. View more details

  • 1988
  • TV-PG
  • 3h 43m

American Experience

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Oliver Platt Michael Murphy David Ogden Stiers David McCullough

All cast & crew

8.6

Details

Genres : History Biography Documentary

Release date : Oct 3, 1988

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site Official Twitter

Language : English

Filming locations : Arlington, Massachusetts, USA

Production companies : WGBH Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Robert Stone Productions

Summary A series showcasing documentaries on American history. View more details

Details

Genres : History Biography Documentary

Release date : Oct 3, 1988

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site Official Twitter

Language : English

Filming locations : Arlington, Massachusetts, USA

Production companies : WGBH Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Robert Stone Productions

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 03, 1988
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.
Episode 2 • Oct 10, 1988
Radio Bikini
It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. Shows great footage from these times and tells the story of the US Navy Sailors who were exposed to radioactive fallout. One interviewed sailor suffered grotesquely swollen limbs and he is shown being interviewed with enormous left arm and hand.
Episode 3 • Oct 17, 1988
Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo
A profile of historian Angie Debo and her exposure of the governmental conspiracy to steal mineral-rich lands from their tribal owners.
Episode 4 • Oct 24, 1988
Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream
Journalist Eric Sevareid recounts his experiences growing up during the Great Depression and World War II.
Episode 5 • Oct 31, 1988
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Episode 6 • Nov 07, 1988
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
A look at modern-day cowboys in the Wyoming Rockies.
Episode 7 • Nov 14, 1988
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
Filmmaker Robert Drew updates his 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) which followed the confrontation between President Kennedy and Alabama governor George Wallace.
Episode 8 • Nov 21, 1988
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
The life of Geronimo, as told by the Chiricahua Apaches.
Episode 9 • Nov 28, 1988
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
Writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans revisit the Alabama tenant system depicted in their 1936 book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men".
Episode 10 • Dec 05, 1988
That Rhythm... Those Blues
A documentary covering the R&B (rhythm and blues) field from the 1940s to the early 1950s. Included is footage of performances by major R&B singers of the time, and interviews with singers, producers and others involved in the field.
Episode 11 • Dec 12, 1988
The Radio Priest
The story of Father Charles Coughlin who, during the Depression, used the radio to protest against what he saw as society's ills.
Episode 12 • Dec 19, 1988
Hearts and Hands
The historical events of nineteenth-century America as depicted in the quilts of the country's women.
Episode 13 • Dec 26, 1988
Views of a Vanishing Frontier
An exploration of the Native Americans of 1830s western America, as seen through the eyes of European travelers Prince Maximilian of Bavaria and Swiss artist Karl Bodmer.
Episode 14 • Jan 02, 1989
Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
A profile on American writer Eudora Welty.
Episode 15 • Jan 09, 1989
The World That Moses Built
Documentary about architect Robert Moses who is responsible for public works projects like the Lincoln Center and the United Nations in New York.
Episode 16 • Jan 16, 1989
Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline
The story of Emeline Bachelder, an early 19th-century New Englander who married a younger man - only to discover that he was the son she had give up when she was fourteen.
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