American Experience

  • Premiered: Oct 1988
  • Episodes: 483
  • Followers: 74
  • Running
  • PBS
  • Tuesday at 21
  • Documentary History

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Season 1
1x1
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Episode overview
Air date
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 square blocks were reduced to .. show full overview
1x2
Radio Bikini
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Air date
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.
1x3
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
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Air date
Oct 18, 1988
The US government attempts to claim lands that have value from Native American dwellers.
1x4
Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream
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Air date
Oct 25, 1988
Mid 20th century America through the eyes of famous journalist Eric Sevareid.
1x5
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
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Air date
Nov 01, 1988
A treatment of women's contributions to the World War II defense industry including interviews with women who participated.
1x6
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
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Air date
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.
1x7
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
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Nov 15, 1988
John Kennedy and George Wallace clash over questions of civil rights in early 1960s Alabama.
1x8
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
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Air date
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.
1x9
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
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Air date
Nov 29, 1988
Life on Alabama tenant farms in the 1930s with comparisons to the living situation today.
1x10
That Rhythm, Those Blues
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Air date
Dec 06, 1988
The growth of rhythm and blues music and its eventual acceptance by mainstream audiences in the 1950s.
1x11
The Radio Priest
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Air date
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.
1x12
Hearts and Hands
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Air date
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.
1x13
Views of a Vanishing Frontier
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Air date
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.
1x14
Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
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Air date
Jan 03, 1989
The work of photographer and author Eudora Welty and her impressions of the south after the turn of the 20th century.
1x15
The World That Moses Built
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Air date
Jan 10, 1989
A biography of Robert Moses, single-minded visionary behind many of New York City's largest and most expensive construction projects.
1x16 Season finale
Sins of Our Mothers
Episode overview
Air date
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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