Season 1 (1988)

The Great San Francisco Earthquake
6.5

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

Radio Bikini
0.0

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

Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
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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

Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
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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

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
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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

Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
7.0

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

Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
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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

Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
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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

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
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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

That Rhythm, Those Blues
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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

The Radio Priest
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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

Hearts and Hands
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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

Views of a Vanishing Frontier
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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

Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
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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

The World That Moses Built
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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

Sins of Our Mothers
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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