Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.

The draught of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster.

A brand new series that explores the greatest achievements in American history in the context of the time period, incorporating archival footage that captures the monumental events of yesteryear. A biographical sketch of the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt celebrates this great man's life from his entry into politics in 1910 to his unprecedented election to four terms as President of the United States.

Experience World War II the way the soldier saw it, in color. Recently released and declassified footage makes up this story of World War II.

Upheaval in Europe and Asia bring the first signs of a second world war. War newsreels and photographs present the important events leading to war, such as Lend Lease, the arsenal for democracy, the attack on Pearl Harbor and industrial mobilization and rationing. This program covers the European and Pacific theaters, and the beginnings of the Atomic Age as well as life on the homefront, Americans on the move, the second Great Migration and the internment...

This is the real story of James J. Braddock, the undersized prizefighter who made an improbable run at the heavyweight title during the dark days of the Depression and raised the spirits of a nation.