S1.E2 ∙ The White Guard

The infamous story of how an armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali's historic 1970 comeback fight transformed Atlanta into the "Black Mecca."

During World War II, five miles above the ground and behind enemy lines, ten men inside an aluminum bomber known as a "Flying Fortress" battle antiaircraft fire and unrelenting flocks of German fighters.

THE HIGHEST STEP IN THE WORLD tells the story of the post-war U.S. Air Force pre-astronauts, who risked their lives to be the first men into space years before NASA existed. And if that's not enough, we'll meet the only man to break the sound barrier by free-falling from the edge of space.

Lt. Gray Crawford and his Deputy Lt. 'Dink' DInkins are on routine nuclear missile duty when all hell breaks loose and World War III looms. A maintenance crew faces certain death if their missile launches before they can escaper. Sudden power loss convinces the crew that incoming nuclear warheads have isolated them in the capsule. Unless cooling air can be reestablished the miles of cable in the capsule will cause it to melt in four minutes - they have only 5 minutes until Launch - and Gray's biggest challenge is his Deputy.

After witnessing his father's death in the Civil War, William returns home to New England to live out his days, but soon he must decide if he is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for others.

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.