American Experience

Season 1 • Episode 9• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited• ★ 6.5

An updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, an American classic.

Documentary
1
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
10/4/1988
2
Radio Bikini
10/11/1988
3
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
10/18/1988
4
Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
10/25/1988
5
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
11/1/1988
6
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
11/8/1988
7
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
11/15/1988
8
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
11/22/1988
9
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
11/29/1988
10
That Rhythm, Those Blues
12/6/1988
11
The Radio Priest
12/13/1988
12
Hearts and Hands
12/20/1988
13
Views of a Vanishing Frontier
12/27/1988
14
Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
1/3/1989
15
The World That Moses Built
1/10/1989
16
Sins of Our Mothers
1/17/1989

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