American Experience — Season 1, Episode 8: Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

Episode synopsis

The story of a tragic collision of two civilizations, each with startlingly different views of one another. In 1886, 5,000 U.S. troops mobilized to capture this one man and his band of followers, who by refusing to move onto a reservation, defied and eluded federal authorities.

About American Experience

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

More episodes from Season 1

• 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
• E9Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
• E10That Rhythm, Those Blues
• E11The Radio Priest
• E12Hearts and Hands
• E13Views of a Vanishing Frontier