American Experience
Season 14 Episode 6 - Mount Rushmore
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
Chronicling the 16-year struggle (1925-41) to fashion Mount Rushmore in South Dakota's Black Hills, and profiling sculptor Gutzon Borglum, its creator. Borglum was 60 when plans for Rushmore were announced and he died not long after the final busts were completed. In between, money was often scarce and the granite from which the likenesses were hewn was crumbly. But Borglum wouldn't be denied, and he had foresight: He planned for 300,000 years' worth of weather erosion.
Episodes in Season 14
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New York (6): The City of Tomorrow
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2
New York (7): The City and the World
55 min
3
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55 min
4
Woodrow Wilson (1): A Passionate Man
55 min
5
Woodrow Wilson (2): The Redemption of the World
55 min
6
Mount Rushmore
55 min
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8
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9
Monkey Trial
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10
Public Enemy #1
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11
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13
Ulysses S. Grant (1): The Warrior
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Ulysses S. Grant (2): The President
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