• 1972
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America

Summary Alistair Cooke's Emmy-winning history of the U.S. from Colonial days to the 1970s, filmed on location, offers a panoramic yet personal look at the birth and growth of America. The series was also known as 'Alistair Cooke's America.' View more details

  • 1972
  • 1h

America

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Alistair Cooke

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8.6

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Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Nov 11, 1972

Countries of origin : United States United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Bodie State Historic Park, California, USA

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Time Life Films

Summary Alistair Cooke's Emmy-winning history of the U.S. from Colonial days to the 1970s, filmed on location, offers a panoramic yet personal look at the birth and growth of America. The series was also known as 'Alistair Cooke's America.' View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Nov 11, 1972

Countries of origin : United States United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Bodie State Historic Park, California, USA

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Time Life Films

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America (1972)

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Episode 1 • Nov 11, 1972
The First Impact
Alistair Cooke looks at the first impressions he had of America when he first arrived in 1932.
Episode 2 • Nov 18, 1972
The New Found Land
The New Found Land follows the lives, settlements, and influence of the Spanish in the west and the French in the east.
Episode 3 • Nov 25, 1972
Home From Home
Home from Home relates the settlement of America by English dissenters and adventurers in the 16th and 17th centuries, from the Jamestown Settlement to the Pilgrim Fathers.
Episode 4 • Dec 02, 1972
Making a Revolution
Making a Revolution looks at the War of Independence, the struggle to break free of British control.
Episode 5 • Dec 09, 1972
Inventing a Nation
Inventing a Nation chronicles the forging of the nation through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and the great debate between the national and individual state governments.
Episode 6 • Dec 16, 1972
Gone West
Gone West is about the pioneers, from Daniel Boone to the "Forty-Niners"; expansion through the Louisiana Purchase; and the dispossession of Native Americans.
Episode 7 • Dec 23, 1972
A Firebell in the Night
A Firebell in the Night tells of slavery and life in the Southern states and of the events, causes, and effects of the Civil War.
Episode 8 • Dec 30, 1972
Domesticating a Wilderness
Domesticating a Wilderness deals with the crossing of the continent by railroad; the myth of the cowboy; the domestication of the land by settlers local and foreign; and the final conquest of the Native Americans after much warfare.
Episode 9 • Jan 06, 1973
Money on the Land
Money on the Land addresses the rise and effects of business and technology, touching Chicago, the reaper, Edison, oil, Rockefeller and Carnegie, and the moneyed classes.
Episode 10 • Jan 13, 1973
The Huddled Masses
The Huddled Masses covers the rise and influence of mass immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the current "melting pot".
Episode 11 • Jan 20, 1973
The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken
The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken surveys life, prosperity, and politics in the 1920s, leading to the Great Depression and the rise of the New Deal.
Episode 12 • Jan 27, 1973
The Arsenal
Arsenal examines the rise of the reluctant United States to world military power, the growth of the United Nations, and the United States as a nuclear power.
Episode 13 • Feb 03, 1973
The More Abundant Life
The More Abundant Life concludes the series by looking at contemporary America in the 1960s and early 1970s, and how it had diverged from the original aims of the settlers, and its hope for the future.
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