American Experience
Season 1, Episode 15: The World That Moses Built
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From the late 1920s through the 1960s, Robert Moses held almost total power over the landscape of New York. He built bridges, highways, Jones Beach, Lincoln Center and the United Nations, some of the most ambitious public works ever conceived, and some of the most controversial.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Episode 2
Radio Bikini
Episode 3
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
Episode 4
Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
Episode 5
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Episode 6
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Episode 7
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
Episode 8
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Episode 9
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
Episode 10
That Rhythm, Those Blues
Episode 11
The Radio Priest
Episode 12
Hearts and Hands
Episode 13
Views of a Vanishing Frontier
Episode 14
Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
Episode 15
The World That Moses Built
Episode 16
Sins of Our Mothers