American Experience · SEASON 1
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Episode 5 · 1988-11-01
- Documentary
Episode overview
An 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.
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
