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One of a series documenting American life and culture in the 1950s. The fabled good life delivers peace and plenty to white America, but bypasses black Americans. Depicts the struggle that black Americans...
Alistair Cooke's first Letter from America - initially called American Letter - was broadcast in March, 1946. It was to be the first of 2,869 such broadcasts, spanning 58 years, making it by far the...
MacDonalds invents fast food and Detroit designer Harley Earl comes up with exuberant cars more like ‘jukeboxes on wheels’; the Russians shock the Americans by beating them into space with Sputnik. The...
The British-born American journalist, Alistair Cooke, traces the history of America from the eve of discovery to the early 1970s in this classic television series.
In a time of social claustrophobia and pervasive sexual taboos, Hugh Hefner launched ‘Playboy’, the Kinsey Report was published and the Pill first became available, setting the stage for the sexual...
The history of the American Indian from the first white settlers to 1969.
Looks at how television was used in the 1950s to sell consumer dreams and political deception in the USA. Rosser Reeves devised advertisements for cigarettes, headache remedies and presidents; Richard Nixon...
Looks at the beginnings of pop music and pop culture, strongly influenced by Elvis Presley and Beat poet Jack Kerouac. However, the country’s underlying racist disregard for civil rights comes to...
In America the gun industry was the first to move from handcrafting to mass production, a development which is re-created here with the help of a gunsmith, a museum of early machine tools and a late...
An eight part American television documentary series which explores the history of the indigenous peoples of North and Central America, from pre-Colombian times, through the period of European contact and...
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