American Experience · SEASON 1
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Episode 1 · 1988-10-04
- Documentary
Episode overview
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.
55 minutes
Season 1 episodes
1. The Great San Francisco Earthquake1988-10-04
2. Radio Bikini1988-10-11
3. Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo1988-10-18
4. Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream1988-10-25
5. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter1988-11-01
6. Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?1988-11-08
7. Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close1988-11-15
8. Geronimo and the Apache Resistance1988-11-22
9. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited1988-11-29
10. That Rhythm, Those Blues1988-12-06
11. The Radio Priest1988-12-13
12. Hearts and Hands1988-12-20
13. Views of a Vanishing Frontier1988-12-27
14. Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings1989-01-03
15. The World That Moses Built1989-01-10
16. Sins of Our Mothers1989-01-17
