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American Experience•Season 1•Episode 2

Radio Bikini

7.5/10 · 708 votesOct 11, 198855 min

Ranked #4 of 16 in Season 1•+0.5 vs season avg

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While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publicized nuclear tests. Seven hundred fifty cameras were shipped to Bikini to be used for a major propaganda film. Bikinians had no say about turning their idyllic island into

Directed byRobert Stone

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The Great San Francisco Earthquake

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Radio Bikini

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Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream

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The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

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Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

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Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close

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Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited

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That Rhythm, Those Blues

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Views of a Vanishing Frontier

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Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings

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The World That Moses Built

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Sins of Our Mothers

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Episode Summary

"Radio Bikini" is episode 2 of American Experience season 1. It scored 7.5/10 from 708 votes, ranking #4 of 16 episodes this season (season average 7.0). Directed by Robert Stone, it aired on October 11, 1988.

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