Project XX examines the period between the end of World War I and the stock market crash of 1929. It is an age of Charles Lindbergh, Jazz Music, prohibition, and excess.
Project XX examines the relatively calm and peaceful years between 1900 and 1914 looking at Teddy Roosevelt, Vaudeville, the development of movies, and the deployment of U.S. troops in Mexico.
This is a half hour TV special that was presented in 1959. It was an episode in the NBC series Project 20 that ran from 1954-1970. In 30 minutes it describes the troubles the United States faced in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected President. It proceeds through the Civil War and through Lincoln's assasination. Masterfully narrated by Alexander Scourby.
Project XX examines the period between the end of World War II to the start of the Korean War describing the growth in the standard of living, Cold War suspicions in America, and Truman's shocking defeat of Dewey in the presidential election of 1948.
Gary Cooper narrates the westward migration from St Louis to CA giving details along the way, then the cattle drives from Texas to Kansas the gold and Silver Rushes, ending with the mistreatment of the Native Americans.