An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and interviews with five, real-life "Rosies" about the reality of working in the defense plants during WWII, and their reactions to having to give up those jobs for returning GIs.
1. The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Aired: Oct 4, 1988An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequen...
Aired: Oct 11, 1988 It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before...
3. Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo
Aired: Oct 18, 1988A profile of historian Angie Debo and her exposure of the governmental conspi...
4. Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream
Aired: Oct 25, 1988Journalist Eric Sevareid recounts his experiences growing up during the Great...
5. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Aired: Nov 1, 1988An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and intervi...
6. Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Aired: Nov 8, 1988A look at modern-day cowboys in the Wyoming Rockies.
7. Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
Aired: Nov 15, 1988Filmmaker Robert Drew updates his 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a President...
8. Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Aired: Nov 22, 1988The life of Geronimo, as told by the Chiricahua Apaches.
9. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
Aired: Nov 29, 1988Writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans revisit the Alabama tenant sy...
Aired: Dec 6, 1988 A documentary covering the R&B (rhythm and blues) field from the 1940s to the...
Aired: Dec 13, 1988 The story of Father Charles Coughlin who, during the Depression, used the rad...
Aired: Dec 20, 1988 The historical events of nineteenth-century America as depicted in the quilts...
13. Views of a Vanishing Frontier
Aired: Dec 27, 1988An exploration of the Native Americans of 1830s western America, as seen thro...
14. Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
Aired: Jan 3, 1989A profile on American writer Eudora Welty.
15. The World That Moses Built
Aired: Jan 10, 1989Documentary about architect Robert Moses who is responsible for public works ...
16. Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline
Aired: Jan 17, 1989The story of Emeline Bachelder, an early 19th-century New Englander who marri...
Current Status: Returning Series
Network: PBS
Production Country: United States
Genres: Documentary, History, Biography
