American Experience - Season 1 Episode 2

Seasons & Episodes

Episode 1

American Experience – S01E01 – The Great San Francisco Earthquake

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Episode 2 Current

American Experience – S01E02 – Radio Bikini

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Episode 3

American Experience – S01E03 – Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo

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Episode 4

American Experience – S01E04 – Eric Sevareid’s Not So Wild a Dream

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Episode 5

American Experience – S01E05 – The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

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Episode 6

American Experience – S01E06 – Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

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Episode 7

American Experience – S01E07 – Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close

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Episode 8

American Experience – S01E08 – Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

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Episode 9

American Experience – S01E09 – Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited

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Episode 10

American Experience – S01E10 – That Rhythm, Those Blues

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Episode 11

American Experience – S01E11 – The Radio Priest

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Episode 12

American Experience – S01E12 – Hearts and Hands

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Episode 13

American Experience – S01E13 – Views of a Vanishing Frontier

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Episode 14

American Experience – S01E14 – Eudora Welty: One Writer’s Beginnings

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Episode 15

American Experience – S01E15 – The World That Moses Built

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Episode 16

American Experience – S01E16 – Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline

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American Experience

Episode Overview

It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. Shows great footage from these times and tells the story of the US Navy Sailors who were exposed to radioactive fallout. One interviewed sailor suffered grotesquely swollen limbs and he is shown being interviewed with enormous left arm and hand.

Episode Details

Airdate: 1988-10-11
Episode Title: Radio Bikini
Runtime: 56
Director: Robert Stone
Genre: Biography, Documentary, History
Cast: Albert Einstein, Bernard Baruch, Harry S. Truman, James Forrestal, John Smitherman, Kilon Bauno, Vyacheslav Molotov, W.H.P. Blandy, Warren Austin, Woodrow P. Swancutt
Episode Rating: 7.5 (692 votes)
Country: USA
Release Year: 1988
Episode Runtime: 120 min
Rated: TV-PG
First Air Date: 1988-10-04
Seasons: 37
Status: Returning Series
Creators: David Grubin, Stephen Ives, Michelle Ferrari
Awards: 1 nomination for Oscar
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