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Released: 4th Oct, 1988

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Season 1 Episodes

S01 Episode 1

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 4 Oct 1988

S01 Episode 2

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 11 Oct 1988

S01 Episode 3

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 18 Oct 1988

S01 Episode 4

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 25 Oct 1988

S01 Episode 5

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 1 Nov 1988

S01 Episode 6

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 8 Nov 1988

S01 Episode 7

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 15 Nov 1988

S01 Episode 8

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 22 Nov 1988

S01 Episode 9

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 29 Nov 1988

S01 Episode 10

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 6 Dec 1988

S01 Episode 11

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 13 Dec 1988

S01 Episode 12

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 20 Dec 1988

S01 Episode 13

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 27 Dec 1988

S01 Episode 14

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 3 Jan 1989

S01 Episode 15

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 10 Jan 1989

S01 Episode 16

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 17 Jan 1989

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