American Experience
Season 18 Episode 11 - The Alaska Pipeline
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
The history of the Alaska Pipeline, which was built in the 1970s to transport oil across 800 miles of pristine wilderness, from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez. Included: the 1968 discovery of the largest oil field in North America at Prudhoe Bay; the battle between Native Americans and the government over the land the pipeline would cross; environmental concerns; and construction of the pipeline itself, which employed 78,000 people and cost more than $8 billion.
Episodes in Season 18
1
Two Days in October
55 min
2
Race to the Moon
55 min
3
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (1): Sin City
55 min
4
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (2): American Mecca
55 min
5
John and Abigail Adams
55 min
6
The Nuremberg Trials
55 min
7
Jesse James
55 min
8
Hijacked
55 min
9
Eugene O'Neill
55 min
10
The Boy in the Bubble
55 min
11
The Alaska Pipeline
55 min
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12
Annie Oakley
55 min
13
The Man Behind Hitler
55 min
