American Experience
Rated 6.548 votes198837 seasons55mTV-PG
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
- First aired
- Oct 4, 1988
- Status
- Returning Series
- Network
- PBS
- Episodes
- 396
- Country
- US
Watch American Experience
S1 E1: The Great San Francisco Earthquake
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S1 E1 The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Oct 4, 1988From 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.
- 1The Great San Francisco Earthquake
- 2Radio Bikini
- 3Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
- 4Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
- 5The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
- 6Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
- 7Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
- 8Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
- 9Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
- 10That Rhythm, Those Blues
- 11The Radio Priest
- 12Hearts and Hands
- 13Views of a Vanishing Frontier
- 14Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
- 15The World That Moses Built
- 16Sins of Our Mothers
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