Alistair Cooke's America

  • Rang #
  • Premiere: Jan 1972
  • Episoden: 13
  • Anhänger: 0
  • Geendet
  • BBC Two
  • Unbekannt
  • Documentary History

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1x10
The Huddled Masses
Episode overview
Ausstrahlung
Jan 14, 1972
This edition looks at European immigrants coming to America.
1x11
The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken
Episode overview
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Jan 21, 1972
This edition looks at the 1920s, which saw America go from an era of unparalelled prosperity to the severest economic depression ever known.
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The First Impact
Episode overview
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Nov 12, 1972
Alistair Cooke looks at the first impressions he had of America when he first arrived in 1932.
1x2
The New Found Land
Episode overview
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Nov 19, 1972
This edition looks at the French and Spanish explorers who fist came to America and retraces the epic journeys of Coronado in 1540.
1x3
Home From Home
Episode overview
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Nov 26, 1972
This edition looks at the two types of British colinists, the merchants who arrived in Virginia and in the South and the Puritans who setttled in New England, and the role of Benjamin Franklin.
1x4
Making a Revolution
Episode overview
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Dez 03, 1972
This edition looks at the American revolution of 1776.
1x5
Inventing a Nation
Episode overview
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Dez 10, 1972
This edition looks at the creation of the Constitution and the role of Thomas Jefferson and also at the grass-roots groups that changed the plans of the Founding Fathers.
1x6
Gone West
Episode overview
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Dez 17, 1972
This edition looks at the West, from Daniel boone's cave in Kentucky to Gold Rush of 1840.
1x7
A Firebell in the Night
Episode overview
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Dez 24, 1972
This edition looks at the causes of the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the plight of the African slaves.
1x8
Domesticating A Wilderness
Episode overview
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Dez 31, 1972
This edition looks at the end of the Wild West, which was precipitated by the the completion of the rail link in 1869, the invention of the wind pump and other factors.
1x9
Money on the Land
Episode overview
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Jan 07, 1973
This edition looks at America's natural resources, and how they were exploited by the likes of John D. Rockerfellr, Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Edison.
1x12
Arsenal
Episode overview
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Jan 28, 1973
This episode looks at the impact that warfare and the military has had on the history of America.
1x13
The More Abundant Life
Episode overview
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Feb 04, 1973
To give Americans a "more abundant life" was the stated aim of FDR's `New Deal' in the 1930s. Alistair Cooke travels from New England to Hawaii to consider if this was achieved.

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