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
E02▶Radio 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
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.
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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