American Experience · SEASON 16
Golden Gate Bridge
Episode 9 · 2004-05-03
- Documentary
Episode overview
Recalling the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, a "graceful leap over an unprecedented space," as narrator David Ogden Stiers calls it. The Golden Gate presented its engineers with a "magnificent" challenge of wind, fog and colliding currents, and they succeeded so magnificently that historian Kevin Starr, the State Librarian of California, likens it to "Hamlet" or a Beethoven symphony. This hour blends technology and poetry smoothly, as does the bridge. It is, sums up Starr, "a fusion of perfections."
55 minutes
Season 16 episodes
1. New York (8): The Center of the World2003-09-08
2. Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (1): Revolution2004-01-12
3. Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2): Retreat2004-01-13
4. Citizen King2004-01-19
5. Remember the Alamo2004-02-02
6. Tupperware!2004-02-09
7. Emma Goldman2004-04-12
8. Patriots Day2004-04-19
9. Golden Gate Bridge2004-05-03
