American Experience
Season 1, Episode 5: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
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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.
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