Alistair Cooke's America

  • : 1972
  • : 13
  • : 0
  • BBC Two
  • Documentary History

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The Huddled Masses
Episode overview
14, 1972
This edition looks at European immigrants coming to America.
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The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken
Episode overview
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
12, 1972
Alistair Cooke looks at the first impressions he had of America when he first arrived in 1932.
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The New Found Land
Episode overview
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.
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Home From Home
Episode overview
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.
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Making a Revolution
Episode overview
03, 1972
This edition looks at the American revolution of 1776.
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Inventing a Nation
Episode overview
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.
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Gone West
Episode overview
17, 1972
This edition looks at the West, from Daniel boone's cave in Kentucky to Gold Rush of 1840.
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A Firebell in the Night
Episode overview
24, 1972
This edition looks at the causes of the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the plight of the African slaves.
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Domesticating A Wilderness
Episode overview
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.
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Money on the Land
Episode overview
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.
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Arsenal
Episode overview
28, 1973
This episode looks at the impact that warfare and the military has had on the history of America.
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The More Abundant Life
Episode overview
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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