Season 1

Season 1 episodes1988-10-03

Season 1

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

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Episodes

Season 1

Episode 1

The Great San Francisco Earthquake

55m

Episode 2

Radio Bikini

55m

Episode 3

Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo

55m

Episode 4

Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream

55m

Episode 5

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

55m

Episode 6

Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

55m

Episode 7

Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close

55m

Episode 8

Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

55m

Episode 9

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited

55m

Episode 10

That Rhythm, Those Blues

55m

Episode 11

The Radio Priest

55m

Episode 12

Hearts and Hands

55m

Episode 13

Views of a Vanishing Frontier

55m

Episode 14

Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings

55m

Episode 15

The World That Moses Built

55m

Episode 16

Sins of Our Mothers

55m