American Experience
198855m / epDocumentary
First aired
October 4, 1988
TMDB Score
65% match · 48 votes
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The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Oct 4, 1988 · 55m
E02PlayingRadio Bikini
Oct 11, 1988 · 55m
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
Oct 18, 1988 · 55m
Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
Oct 25, 1988 · 55m
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Nov 1, 1988 · 55m
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Nov 8, 1988 · 55m
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
Nov 15, 1988 · 55m
E08▶Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Nov 22, 1988 · 55m
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
Nov 29, 1988 · 55m
That Rhythm, Those Blues
Dec 6, 1988 · 55m
The Radio Priest
Dec 13, 1988 · 55m
Hearts and Hands
Dec 20, 1988 · 55m
Views of a Vanishing Frontier
Dec 27, 1988 · 55m
Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
Jan 3, 1989 · 55m
The World That Moses Built
Jan 10, 1989 · 55m
Sins of Our Mothers
Jan 17, 1989 · 55m
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.
About the Series
Synopsis
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
- First aired
- October 4, 1988
- Last aired
- January 6, 2026
- Seasons
- 37 seasons · 396 episodes
- Status
- Returning Series
- Original language
- English
- Network
- PBS
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