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America: A Personal History of the United States

America: A Personal History of the United States

1972 1 Seasons 13 Episodes ⭐ 7.0 Documentary

First transmitted in 1972, Alistair Cooke's America was a series of thirteen, fifty-minute films in colour, written and narrated by Alistair Cooke. The programmes trace the history of the United States from the early voyages of discovery to the present.

First transmitted in 1972, Alistair Cooke's America was a series of thirteen, fifty-minute films in colour, written and narrated by Alistair Cooke. The programmes trace the history of the United States from the early voyages of discovery to the present.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The First Impact

Alistair Cooke explains his own fascination with the United States of America and tells the story of how he first came t

EP 2

The New Found Land

Alistair Cooke travels back to the discovery of the American continent by the Europeans and follows the settlement of th

EP 3

Home From Home

In this episode of the series, Cooke tracks the English venture into the New World during the 16th and 17th centuries, f

EP 4

Making a Revolution

By the middle of the 18th century, the American nation was not a nation at all but a number of separately governed colon

EP 5

Inventing a Nation

Upon winning the War of Independence, the American colonists returned to their own independent colonies and settled down

EP 6

Gone West

Cooke discusses where the West begins and how and why in the early 19th century the West was conquered by outsiders who,

EP 7

A Firebell in the Night

In this episode, Cooke travels to the Southern States to explore the world of the 19th century slave and the causes and

EP 8

Domesticating A Wilderness

In the 1840s over the crest of the Rockies there lay the first successful community West of the United States, the resid

EP 9

Money on the Land

In the late 19th century, Americans started getting rich through business and technology. Alistair Cooke explores the ri

EP 10

The Huddled Masses

Three quarters of the population of the United States who call themselves "the American people" are descendants of immig

EP 11

The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken

This edition looks at the 1920s, which saw America go from an era of unparalelled prosperity to the severest economic de

EP 12

Arsenal

This episode looks at the impact that warfare and the military has had on the history of America.

EP 13

The More Abundant Life

To give Americans a "more abundant life" was the stated aim of FDR's `New Deal' in the 1930s. Alistair Cooke travels fro

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