Season 1
(1988)
Cast
Episodes
The Great San Francisco Earthquake 6.5
October 4, 1988
From Enrico Caruso to the ordinary San Franciscan, this film presents vivid memories of those trapped in the terrifying…
Radio Bikini 0.0
October 11, 1988
While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publicized nucle…
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo 0.0
October 18, 1988
As a child in 1899, Angie Debo was taken to Oklahoma in a covered wagon. She would become her state's most controversia…
Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream 0.0
October 25, 1988
A touching memoir beginning with life in a small Minnesota town and taking us through a young man's early days as pacif…
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter 0.0
November 1, 1988
An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and interviews with five, real-life "Rosies" about th…
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys? 7.0
November 8, 1988
A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families who have lived in Big Piney for six generations. Althou…
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close 0.0
November 15, 1988
An intimate portrait of the Kennedy brothers and their confrontation with Alabama Governor George Wallace when he defie…
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance 0.0
November 22, 1988
The story of a tragic collision of two civilizations, each with startlingly different views of one another. In 1886, 5,…
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited 0.0
November 29, 1988
An updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize…
That Rhythm, Those Blues 0.0
December 6, 1988
The evolution of rhythm and blues through the careers of singers Ruth Brown and Charles Brown, from the 1940s into the …
The Radio Priest 0.0
December 13, 1988
Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from Michigan, uses the new power of radio to become one of the first …
Hearts and Hands 0.0
December 20, 1988
The design and art of quilting yields intimate clues about the lives of 19th century women, who stitched their personal…
Views of a Vanishing Frontier 0.0
December 27, 1988
The journey of Prince Maximilian, German naturalist, and artist Karl Bodmer, who explored the Mississippi River area fr…
Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings 0.0
January 3, 1989
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty narrates the story of her own Southern childhood and early artistic developm…
The World That Moses Built 0.0
January 10, 1989
From the late 1920s through the 1960s, Robert Moses held almost total power over the landscape of New York. He built br…
Sins of Our Mothers 0.0
January 17, 1989
A Gothic tale of sin and redemption in 19th century New England. A small town in Maine reacts to the unconventional beh…