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American Experience

Season 1 Episode 5 55 min

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S1 E5: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and interviews with five, real-life "Rosies" about the reality of working in the defense plants during WWII, and their reactions to having to give up those jobs for returning GIs.

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16 episodes

E1 The Great San Francisco Earthquake E2 Radio Bikini E3 Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo E4 Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream E5 The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter E6 Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys? E7 Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close E8 Geronimo and the Apache Resistance E9 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited E10 That Rhythm, Those Blues E11 The Radio Priest E12 Hearts and Hands E13 Views of a Vanishing Frontier E14 Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings E15 The World That Moses Built E16 Sins of Our Mothers

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