October 4, 1988 • 55m
From Enrico Caruso to the ordinary San Franciscan, this film presents vivid memories of those trapped in the terrifying event of 1...Read more
October 11, 1988 • 55m
While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publicized nuclear tests. S...Read more
October 18, 1988 • 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...Read more
October 25, 1988 • 55m
A touching memoir beginning with life in a small Minnesota town and taking us through a young man's early days as pacifist. Report...Read more
November 1, 1988 • 55m
An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and interviews with five, real-life "Rosies" about the reality o...Read more
November 8, 1988 • 55m
A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families who have lived in Big Piney for six generations. Although very muc...Read more
November 15, 1988 • 55m
An intimate portrait of the Kennedy brothers and their confrontation with Alabama Governor George Wallace when he defied the court...Read more
November 22, 1988 • 55m
The story of a tragic collision of two civilizations, each with startlingly different views of one another. In 1886, 5,000 U.S. tr...Read more
November 29, 1988 • 55m
An updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning bo...Read more
December 6, 1988 • 55m
The evolution of rhythm and blues through the careers of singers Ruth Brown and Charles Brown, from the 1940s into the 50s, with c...Read more
December 13, 1988 • 55m
Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from Michigan, uses the new power of radio to become one of the first media stars...Read more
December 20, 1988 • 55m
The design and art of quilting yields intimate clues about the lives of 19th century women, who stitched their personal and politi...Read more
December 27, 1988 • 55m
The journey of Prince Maximilian, German naturalist, and artist Karl Bodmer, who explored the Mississippi River area from 1832-34,...Read more
January 3, 1989 • 55m
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty narrates the story of her own Southern childhood and early artistic development in Jack...Read more
January 10, 1989 • 55m
From the late 1920s through the 1960s, Robert Moses held almost total power over the landscape of New York. He built bridges, high...Read more
January 17, 1989 • 55m
A Gothic tale of sin and redemption in 19th century New England. A small town in Maine reacts to the unconventional behavior of on...Read more