Poster of Cast and Crew in American Experience - Season 16 - Episode 9 - Golden Gate Bridge

American Experience - Season 16 - Golden Gate Bridge (Episode 9)

Plot: 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
Episode Aired On:
Monday, May 3 2004
20 years ago