America: Our Defining Hours

Surviving the "starving time" of the first colonies; battling their mother country for independence; heading out to the frontier and west into the unknown; sparking a resistance to slavery that brings the United States to the brink of civil war.

In the mid-1800s, Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States, which is on the brink of the Civil War; Teddy Roosevelt steps forward, bringing fierce leadership on behalf of the working man.

The United States experiences a great economic crisis in the 1930s; FDR offers the troubled nation the New Deal; Pearl Harbor is a lightning bolt to the American soul; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is in command of the allied invasion.