American Experience — Season 1, Episode 15: The World That Moses Built

Episode synopsis

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.

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• E1The Great San Francisco Earthquake
• E2Radio Bikini
• E3Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
• E4Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
• E5The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
• E6Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
• E7Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
• E8Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
• E9Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
• E10That Rhythm, Those Blues
• E11The Radio Priest
• E12Hearts and Hands