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The American Experience (1988)

Starring: Stacy Keach, Laura Linney, Kyle MacLachlan, Alfre Woodard, David Ogden Stiers, Simon Schama, Richard Dreyfuss, Blair Brown, Liev Schreiber, Campbell (I) Scott, Andre Braugher, Scott Glenn, Hector Elizondo, Linda Hunt, Kilon Bauno, Joe (I) Morton, Hal Linden, Russ (III) Little, Veronica James, Cherry (I) Jones, Michael (I) Murphy, Michael (I) Burgess, Ron Tough, Toni Cade Bambara, David (II) McCullough, Carl Lumbly, Courtney B. Vance, Philip Bosco, Edward A. Askew, Phil (II) Stewart, Timothy (I) Sawyer, Charles Loring Brace IV, Julia �lvarez, David Ogden Stiers, Ruth Gruber, Robert (XII) Hall, Josh (I) Hamilton, Brendan (I) Gill, Christopher (I) Kraft, Walter Cronkite, Seabiscuit, Anna Deavere Smith, Peter Francis James, Marilyn Spanier, Daniel Czitrom, Colm Feore, John Smitherman, Patrick (V) Jordan, Michael Bortin, Ron Vawter, Fred Chiaventone, John C. Ausland, Hermann Göring, Susan Borman, Ken Coates, Kanalu Young, Laura Hillenbrand, Elton Fax, Gillian Cookson, Mary Bacon, Bart Whiteman, Stephen Benson, Jennifer Lee Dake, Bob Ader, Matt (I) Carlson, Sarah Banet-Weiser, David (XIX) Lowe, Timothy (II) Findley, Simon Russell Beale, Donald (I) Chambers, Barbara Feldon, Sean McGuirk, Pearl Bowser, Eli Wallach, Joe Bacile, T.J. Stiles, Charles (VIII) King, Scott Klavan, Walter Cronkite, William (VI) Jackson, Margaret Cho, Scott Whitehurst, Farrell Jones, Charles (II) Hendricks, John Steele Gordon, Robert (III) Fields, Dan Desmond, Linda Emond, Suzannah Lessard, Dan Grove, David Edward Stannard, Christopher (II) Phillips, Adolph Mall, James (I) Avery, Virginia Scharff, John F. Kennedy, Robert (V) Jackson, Gerry Bamman, James (I) Barbour, Geoffrey S. Barkway

Directors: Lisa Ades, Peter (III) Adler, Mark (XX) Anderson, Steven Ascher, Orlando Bagwell, Alexander Berkel, Jon Blair, Adriana Bosch, Pearl Bowser, Mel Bucklin, Ric Burns, Mark Bussler, Carl Byker, Michael (II) Chin, M Pink Christofalo, Rocky Collins, Kathy Conkwright, Bestor Cram, Mark (XI) Davis, Mark J. Davis, Frank J. De Meo, Elizabeth Deane, James A. DeVinney, Gail Dolgin, Margaret Drain, Irv Drasnin, Robert (I) Drew, David (I) Dugan, Bill (I) Duke, Michael (I) Epstein, David Espar, Pat Ferrero, Craig B. Fisher, Vicente Franco, Riva Freifeld, Héctor Galan, Linda Garmon, Chana Gazit, Barak Goodman, Karen (II) Goodman, Neil Goodwin, Janet (III) Graham, Edward Gray, David Grubin, Charles Guggenheim, Lutz Hachmeister, Helaine Head, Sarah (I) Holt, Austin Hoyt, Stephen Ives, Peter (XVI) Jones, Jeanne Jordan, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, Andrea Kalin, Robert Kenner, Kevin Kertscher, Michael Kloft, Laurel Ladevich, Michael R. Lawrence, Thomas (II) Lennon, Christine Lesiak, Robert Levi, Ben Loeterman, Randall MacLowry, John (I) Maggio, Marian Marzynski, Stefan Mausbach, Marilyn Mellowes, Muffie Meyer, Annie Mumgaard, Stanley (I) Nelson, George T. Nierenberg, Martin Ostrow, Thomas (II) Ott, Dave (IV) Pearce, Nancy (II) Porter, Anthony Potter, Patricia Garcia Rios, Richard P. Rogers, John (I) Rubin, Mark (I) Samels, Martha Sandlin, Jacqueline Shearer, Michael (I) Simkin, Kirk Simon, Llewellyn Smith, Llewellyn M. Smith, Tom Spain, Eric Stange, Hilary Klotz Steinman, Stephen Stept, David Steward, Robert (IV) Stone, Tracy Heather Strain, David (I) Sutherland, Ann Tegnell, Caroline Toth, Joseph Tovares, Noland Walker, John W. Walter

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama, Documentary, Documentary, Documentary, Documentary, Biography, History, Documentary, Biography, Documentary, History, Documentary, History, Documentary, Music, Documentary, Documentary, Documentary, Documentary, Documentary, Documentary, History, D

Release-dates: 18 April 2005 (USA), 28 April 2002 (USA), 17 October 1989 (USA), 19 January 1998 (USA), 15 May 2007 (USA), 8 February 1999 (USA), 27 October 1993 (USA), 18 November 1998 (USA), 8 January 2000 (UK), 6 April 1994 (USA), 8 May 2006 (USA), 21 April 2002 (USA), 28 April 1997 (USA), 7 July 2003 (USA), 10 February 1997 (USA), 7 February 2005 (USA), 13 January 2003 (USA), 14 January 2003 (USA), 15 January 2003 (USA), January 2004 (USA), 19 January 2004 (USA), 4 February 1991 (USA), 25 May 1994 (USA), 22 January 1996 (USA), 10 October 1989 (USA), 8 November 1988 (USA), 9 December 1991 (USA), 1993 (USA), 23 October 1995 (USA), 10 January 2000 (USA), 12 April 2004 (USA), 25 October 1988 (USA), 3 January 1989 (USA), 21 March 2006 (USA), 11 October 1994 (USA), 2001 (USA), 31 January 2005 (USA), 1999 (USA), 18 November 1992 (USA), 22 November 1988 (USA), 1997 (USA), 6 November 2006 (USA), 3 May 2004 (USA), January 2004 (USA), 19 June 2004 (USA), 30 October 2004 (USA), 26 November 2004 (USA), 3 June 2005 (UK), 27 January 1997 (USA), 20 December 1988 (USA), 27 February 2006 (USA), 18 January 1999 (USA), 2000 (USA), 15 January 1993 (USA), 17 February 1992 (USA), 18 October 1988 (USA), 9 February 1998 (USA), 30 October 1990 (USA), 6 February 2006 (USA), 2002 (USA), 8 May 2000 (USA), 23 January 2006 (USA), 28 February 2000 (USA), 4 November 1991 (USA), 9 April 2007 (USA), 10 February 2000 (USA), 15 November 1988 (USA), 14 February 2005 (USA), 14 February 2005 (USA), 30 September 1991 (USA), 1 October 1991 (USA), 14 November 2005 (USA), 15 November 2005 (USA), 29 November 1988 (USA), August 1990 (USA), 1 October 1990 (USA), 1999 (USA), 17 May 1999 (USA), 26 January 1994 (USA), 19 January 2001 (USA), 9 February 2001 (USA), 12 February 2001 (USA), 4 April 2005 (USA), 22 February 1999 (USA), 26 October 1994 (USA), January 2002 (USA), 27 January 2002 (USA), 2002 (USA), 20 January 2002 (USA)

Rating: 7.9

Tagline: The Most Daring Rescue of Our Time...

Quote: [first lines] Narrator: On the 31st day of May, 1889, more than two thousand lives were lost when the South Fork Dam collapsed. An entire lake, 20 million tons of water, crashed down the Conemaugh...

Plot: A docudrama adaptation of Ulrich's Pulitzer-winning book, which was based on thousands of entries in the journal of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife, in the late 1700's and early 1800's. The movie inte...(Anonymous)
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