American Experience - Season 1 (1988)

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16 Episodes

S1 E1 - The Great San Francisco Earthquake

S1 E2 - Radio Bikini

S1 E3 - Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo

S1 E4 - Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream

S1 E5 - The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

S1 E6 - Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

S1 E7 - Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close

S1 E8 - Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

S1 E9 - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited

S1 E10 - That Rhythm, Those Blues

S1 E11 - The Radio Priest

S1 E12 - Hearts and Hands

S1 E13 - Views of a Vanishing Frontier

S1 E14 - Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings

S1 E15 - The World That Moses Built

S1 E16 - Sins of Our Mothers

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Synopsis

Unfolding like a political thriller, Taken Hostage revisits the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran. For the next 444 days, the world watched as the U.S. endured humiliation, vitriol and hatred from a country that had long been a close ally. The crisis would transform both the U.S. and Iran and forever upend the focus and direction of American foreign policy.

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Yoruba Richen, Robert Stone, Barak Goodman, Stephen Ives, Rob Rapley, John Maggio, Sharon Grimberg, Chana Gazit, Mark Zwonitzer, Robert Kenner, Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford, Laurens Grant, Margaret Grossi, Li-Shin Yu, Michael Bicks, Anna Lee Strachan, Leola Calzolai-Stewart, Jamila Ephron, Tracy Heather Strain, Randall MacLowry, Keven McAlester, Sarah Colt, Michelle Ferrari, Amanda Pollak, Sam Pollard, Sébastien Lifshitz, Peter Yost, Rocky Collins, Chris Eyre, Muffie Meyer, Brad Lichtenstein, David Grubin, David Espar, Irv Drasnin, Lawrence Hott, Diane Garey, Nancy Porter, Thomas Ott, Christine Lesiak, Sue Williams, Michael Kloft, Ric Burns, David Heilbroner, Kate Davis, Susan Bellows, Gene Tempest