The BEST episodes of American Experience season 1
Every episode of American Experience season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of American Experience season 1!
Presents an absorbing look at the personalities, events and resources that have had a profound impact on the shaping of America's past and present.
#1 - Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1988
Account of the famous Native American leader's battle against the US in the American southwest from the viewpoints of historians and modern Apaches.
#2 - Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1988
The US government attempts to claim lands that have value from Native American dwellers.
#3 - Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1988
Mid 20th century America through the eyes of famous journalist Eric Sevareid.
#4 - The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1988
A treatment of women's contributions to the World War II defense industry including interviews with women who participated.
#6 - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1988
Life on Alabama tenant farms in the 1930s with comparisons to the living situation today.
#7 - The Radio Priest
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1988
A Catholic priest (Charles Coughlin) takes to the radio airwaves in the 1930s and broadcasts his views on the condition of the country.
#8 - Hearts and Hands
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1988
An examination of the women of 19th century America - as suffragists, abolitionists, authors - and the record they and many others left through quilt-making.
#9 - Views of a Vanishing Frontier
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1988
A German prince and a Swiss painter interpret the United States in a new light during a visit to the American west during the 1830s.
#10 - The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1988
From Enrico Caruso to the ordinary San Franciscan, this film presents vivid memories of those trapped in the terrifying event of 1906. Four hundred eighty square blocks were reduced to rubble; thousands were killed, tens of thousands left homeless. Then the heroic struggle to rebuild a city from the ashes began.
#11 - Radio Bikini
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1988
The story of atomic bomb research after World War II and how above-ground testing led to the evacuation of a previously-populated atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
#12 - Sins of Our Mothers
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1989
A tale of a woman in the 1800s who risked scorn by marrying a man much younger than herself, and a person later found to be her biological son from long ago.
#13 - That Rhythm, Those Blues
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1988
The growth of rhythm and blues music and its eventual acceptance by mainstream audiences in the 1950s.
#14 - Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1988
John Kennedy and George Wallace clash over questions of civil rights in early 1960s Alabama.
#15 - Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1989
The work of photographer and author Eudora Welty and her impressions of the south after the turn of the 20th century.
#16 - The World That Moses Built
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1989
A biography of Robert Moses, single-minded visionary behind many of New York City's largest and most expensive construction projects.