American Experience
Season 16 Episode 9 - Golden Gate Bridge
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
Recalling the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, a "graceful leap over an unprecedented space," as narrator David Ogden Stiers calls it. The Golden Gate presented its engineers with a "magnificent" challenge of wind, fog and colliding currents, and they succeeded so magnificently that historian Kevin Starr, the State Librarian of California, likens it to "Hamlet" or a Beethoven symphony. This hour blends technology and poetry smoothly, as does the bridge. It is, sums up Starr, "a fusion of perfections."
Episodes in Season 16
1
New York (8): The Center of the World
55 min
2
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (1): Revolution
55 min
3
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2): Retreat
55 min
4
Citizen King
55 min
5
Remember the Alamo
55 min
6
Tupperware!
55 min
7
Emma Goldman
55 min
8
Patriots Day
55 min
9
Golden Gate Bridge
55 min
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