American Experience

8.6
/10
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A series showcasing documentaries on American history.
  • 1hs
  • Seasons: 36
  • Episodes: 387
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American Experience

season 1

serie United States 1988

Episode rating

Season 1
7.9
E1
7.5
E2
7.4
E3
6.2
E4
7.1
E5
6.4
E6
7.0
E7
6.6
E8
6.3
E9
7.3
E10
7.3
E11
6.4
E12
6.9
E13
5.9
E14
6.8
E15
7.3
E16

Cast of season 1

In order of relevance in the season

Episodes of season 116

  • 7.9
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    The Great San Francisco Earthquake
    episode S1.E1 october 1988
    An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.
  • 7.5
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    Radio Bikini
    episode S1.E2 october 1988
    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.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo
    episode S1.E3 october 1988
    A profile of historian Angie Debo and her exposure of the governmental conspiracy to steal mineral-rich lands from their tribal owners.
  • 6.2
    /10

    Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream
    episode S1.E4 october 1988
    Journalist Eric Sevareid recounts his experiences growing up during the Great Depression and World War II.
  • 7.1
    /10

    The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
    episode S1.E5 november 1988
  • 6.4
    /10

    Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
    episode S1.E6 november 1988
    A look at modern-day cowboys in the Wyoming Rockies.
  • 7
    /10

    Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
    episode S1.E7 november 1988
    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.
  • 6.6
    /10

    Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
    episode S1.E8 november 1988
    The life of Geronimo, as told by the Chiricahua Apaches.
  • 6.3
    /10

    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
    episode S1.E9 november 1988
    Writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans revisit the Alabama tenant system depicted in their 1936 book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men".
  • 7.3
    /10

    That Rhythm, Those Blues
    episode S1.E10 december 1988
  • 7.3
    /10

    The Radio Priest
    episode S1.E11 december 1988
    The story of Father Charles Coughlin who, during the Depression, used the radio to protest against what he saw as society's ills.
  • 6.4
    /10

    Hearts and Hands
    episode S1.E12 december 1988
    The historical events of nineteenth-century America as depicted in the quilts of the country's women.
  • 6.9
    /10

    Views of a Vanishing Frontier
    episode S1.E13 december 1988
    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.
  • 5.9
    /10

    Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
    episode S1.E14 january 1989
    A profile on American writer Eudora Welty.
  • 6.8
    /10

    The World That Moses Built
    episode S1.E15 january 1989
    Documentary about architect Robert Moses who is responsible for public works projects like the Lincoln Center and the United Nations in New York.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline
    episode S1.E16 january 1989
    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.