A series showcasing documentaries on American history.
"American Experience" combines dramatic re-enactments with commentary by historians and authors to present an absorbing look at the personalities, events and resources that have had a profound impact on the shaping of America's past and present.
1. The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Aired: Oct 4, 1988An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequen...
Aired: Oct 11, 1988 It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before...
3. Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo
Aired: Oct 18, 1988A profile of historian Angie Debo and her exposure of the governmental conspi...
4. Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream
Aired: Oct 25, 1988Journalist Eric Sevareid recounts his experiences growing up during the Great...
5. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Aired: Nov 1, 1988An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and intervi...
6. Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Aired: Nov 8, 1988A look at modern-day cowboys in the Wyoming Rockies.
7. Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
Aired: Nov 15, 1988Filmmaker Robert Drew updates his 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a President...
8. Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Aired: Nov 22, 1988The life of Geronimo, as told by the Chiricahua Apaches.
9. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
Aired: Nov 29, 1988Writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans revisit the Alabama tenant sy...
Aired: Dec 6, 1988 A documentary covering the R&B (rhythm and blues) field from the 1940s to the...
Aired: Dec 13, 1988 The story of Father Charles Coughlin who, during the Depression, used the rad...
Aired: Dec 20, 1988 The historical events of nineteenth-century America as depicted in the quilts...
13. Views of a Vanishing Frontier
Aired: Dec 27, 1988An exploration of the Native Americans of 1830s western America, as seen thro...
14. Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
Aired: Jan 3, 1989A profile on American writer Eudora Welty.
15. The World That Moses Built
Aired: Jan 10, 1989Documentary about architect Robert Moses who is responsible for public works ...
16. Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline
Aired: Jan 17, 1989The story of Emeline Bachelder, an early 19th-century New Englander who marri...
Main Cast
Appearances
Current Status: Returning Series
Network: PBS
Genres: Documentary, History, Biography
