American Experience

1. The Great San Francisco Earthquake

An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequen...

2. Radio Bikini

It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before...

4. Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream

Journalist Eric Sevareid recounts his experiences growing up during the Great...

5. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and intervi...

6. Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

A look at modern-day cowboys in the Wyoming Rockies.

7. Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close

Filmmaker Robert Drew updates his 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a President...

8. Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

The life of Geronimo, as told by the Chiricahua Apaches.

9. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited

Writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans revisit the Alabama tenant sy...

10. That Rhythm, Those Blues

A documentary covering the R&B (rhythm and blues) field from the 1940s to the...

11. The Radio Priest

The story of Father Charles Coughlin who, during the Depression, used the rad...

12. Hearts and Hands

The historical events of nineteenth-century America as depicted in the quilts...

13. Views of a Vanishing Frontier

An exploration of the Native Americans of 1830s western America, as seen thro...

14. Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings

A profile on American writer Eudora Welty.

15. The World That Moses Built

Documentary about architect Robert Moses who is responsible for public works ...

16. Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline

The story of Emeline Bachelder, an early 19th-century New Englander who marri...