American Experience · SEASON 1
Radio Bikini
Episode 2 · 1988-10-11
- Documentary
Episode overview
While 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.
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
