7.0
American Masters
1986
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
The Great San Francisco EarthquakeOct 4, 1988 · 55m · ★ 6.5From 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.
Radio BikiniOct 11, 1988 · 55mWhile the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publicized nuclear tests. Seven hundred fifty cameras were shipped to Bikini to be used for a major propaganda film. Bikinians had no say about turning their idyllic island into an atomic test site. Forty years later, their home would still be too contaminated to support human life.Indians, Outlaws and Angie DeboOct 18, 1988 · 55mAs a child in 1899, Angie Debo was taken to Oklahoma in a covered wagon. She would become her state's most controversial historian -- her career threatened when she uncovered a cache of documents which proved a widespread conspiracy to cheat Native Americans out of oil-rich lands.Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A DreamOct 25, 1988 · 55mA touching memoir beginning with life in a small Minnesota town and taking us through a young man's early days as pacifist. Reporting on the rise of fascism in Europe, Sevareid, as a young CBS reporter, would change his belief. Based on Sevareid's best-selling book of the same title.The Life and Times of Rosie the RiveterNov 1, 1988 · 55mAn 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.Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?Nov 8, 1988 · 55m · ★ 7.0A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families who have lived in Big Piney for six generations. Although very much the same as it was one hundred years ago -- tough, lonely, but still romantic -- ranching is now a threatened way of life.
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
David Ogden StiersNarrator (voice)
David McCulloughNarrator (voice)
Michael MurphyNarrator (voice)
Linda HuntSelf - Narrator (voice)
Oliver PlattNarrator (voice)
Joe MortonNarrator (voice)
Julian BondNarrator (voice)
Jason RobardsNarrator (voice)
Blair BrownNarrator (voice)
Frances Sternhagen(voice)
Campbell ScottNarrator (voice)
Andre BraugherRobert Carter (voice)
George PlimptonSelf (voice)
Stacy KeachNarrator (voice)
Lyndon B. JohnsonSelf (archive footage)
Dion GrahamSelf - Narrator (voice)
René AuberjonoisAlexander Hamilton (voice)
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