American Experience (1988)

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198837 Seasons55m episodes6.5

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Runtime: 55m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Certificate: TV-PG
Origin: US

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

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Status: Returning Series
First aired: Oct 4, 1988
Network: PBS
Studio: GBH

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363 hrs

396 episodes. About 52 weeks at an hour a night.

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SERIES

198837 Seasons55m episodes6.5

Documentary

TMDB6.5

Votes49

Your rating

Runtime: 55m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Certificate: TV-PG
Origin: US

About

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

Where to watch

Region

Stream

YouTube TV

PBS

PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel

Free

PBS

Buy

Amazon Video

Apple TV Store

Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.

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E1 · Airs Oct 4, 1988 · 55m · ★ 6.5
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.
E2 · Airs Oct 11, 1988 · 55m
Radio Bikini
While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publicized nuclear tests. Seven hundred fifty cameras were shipped to Bikini to be used for a major propaganda film. Bikinians had no say about turning their idyllic island into an atomic test site. Forty years later, their home would still be too contaminated to support human life.
E3 · Airs Oct 18, 1988 · 55m
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
As 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 threatened when she uncovered a cache of documents which proved a widespread conspiracy to cheat Native Americans out of oil-rich lands.
E4 · Airs Oct 25, 1988 · 55m
Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
A 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 fascism in Europe, Sevareid, as a young CBS reporter, would change his belief. Based on Sevareid's best-selling book of the same title.
E5 · Airs Nov 1, 1988 · 55m
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and interviews with five, real-life "Rosies" about the reality of working in the defense plants during WWII, and their reactions to having to give up those jobs for returning GIs.
E6 · Airs Nov 8, 1988 · 55m · ★ 7.0
Do 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 was one hundred years ago -- tough, lonely, but still romantic -- ranching is now a threatened way of life.
E7 · Airs Nov 15, 1988 · 55m
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.
E8 · Airs Nov 22, 1988 · 55m
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.
E9 · Airs Nov 29, 1988 · 55m
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.
E10 · Airs Dec 6, 1988 · 55m · ★ 8.0
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.
E11 · Airs Dec 13, 1988 · 55m
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.
E12 · Airs Dec 20, 1988 · 55m
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.
E13 · Airs Dec 27, 1988 · 55m
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.
E14 · Airs Jan 3, 1989 · 55m
Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty narrates the story of her own Southern childhood and early artistic development in Jackson, Mississippi. Based on her best-selling book of the same title.
E15 · Airs Jan 10, 1989 · 55m
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.
E16 · Airs Jan 17, 1989 · 55m
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.

Details

Status: Returning Series
First aired: Oct 4, 1988
Network: PBS
Studio: GBH

Time to finish

363 hrs

396 episodes. About 52 weeks at an hour a night.

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