American Experience · SEASON 1
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Episode 8 · 1988-11-22

- Documentary
Episode overview
The story of a tragic collision of two civilizations, each with startlingly different views of one another. In 1886, 5,000 U.S. troops mobilized to capture this one man and his band of followers, who by refusing to move onto a reservation, defied and eluded federal authorities.
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