American Experience - Season 1

Unfolding like a political thriller, Taken Hostage revisits the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran. For the next 444 days, the world watched as the U.S. endured humiliation, vitriol and hatred from a country that had long been a close ally. The crisis would transform both the U.S. and Iran and forever upend the focus and direction of American foreign policy.

• S1 E1 - The Great San Francisco Earthquake

• S1 E2 - Radio Bikini

• S1 E3 - Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo

• S1 E4 - Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream

• S1 E5 - The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

• S1 E6 - Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

• S1 E7 - Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close

• S1 E8 - Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

• S1 E9 - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited

• S1 E10 - That Rhythm, Those Blues

• S1 E11 - The Radio Priest

• S1 E12 - Hearts and Hands

• S1 E13 - Views of a Vanishing Frontier

• S1 E14 - Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings

• S1 E15 - The World That Moses Built

• S1 E16 - Sins of Our Mothers