Series

American Experience

1988★ 6.537 seasons

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Cast

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Episodes

1The Great San Francisco EarthquakeFrom Enrico Caruso to the ordinary San Franciscan, this film presents vivid memories of those trapped in the terrifying event of 1906. Four hundred e…55 min

2Radio BikiniWhile the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publicized nuclear tests. Seven hundred fifty …55 min 3Indians, Outlaws and Angie DeboAs a child in 1899, Angie Debo was taken to Oklahoma in a covered wagon. She would become her state's most controversial historian -- her career thre…55 min 4Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A DreamA touching memoir beginning with life in a small Minnesota town and taking us through a young man's early days as pacifist. Reporting on the rise of …55 min 5The Life and Times of Rosie the RiveterAn original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and interviews with five, real-life "Rosies" about the reality of working in the de…55 min 6Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families who have lived in Big Piney for six generations. Although very much the same as it wa…55 min 7Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up CloseAn intimate portrait of the Kennedy brothers and their confrontation with Alabama Governor George Wallace when he defied the courts by refusing to in…55 min

8Geronimo and the Apache ResistanceThe 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 c…55 min 9Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: RevisitedAn updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, an American cla…55 min 10That Rhythm, Those BluesThe evolution of rhythm and blues through the careers of singers Ruth Brown and Charles Brown, from the 1940s into the 50s, with contemporary perform…55 min 11The Radio PriestFather 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 w…55 min 12Hearts and HandsThe design and art of quilting yields intimate clues about the lives of 19th century women, who stitched their personal and political stories into th…55 min 13Views of a Vanishing FrontierThe journey of Prince Maximilian, German naturalist, and artist Karl Bodmer, who explored the Mississippi River area from 1832-34, meticulously docum…55 min 14Eudora Welty: One Writer's BeginningsPulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty narrates the story of her own Southern childhood and early artistic development in Jackson, Mississippi. B…55 min 15The World That Moses BuiltFrom the late 1920s through the 1960s, Robert Moses held almost total power over the landscape of New York. He built bridges, highways, Jones Beach, …55 min 16Sins of Our MothersA 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 resi…55 min

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