America undergoes it's greatest period of change and unprecedented growth; the 1920 Wall Street bombing; the Greenwood massacre.
The Great Depression dominates the decade; Franklin Roosevelt's Presidency; the White House fire of 1930; home movies filmed by Lou Hoover.
America as the leader of the free world; Pearl Harbor; a new era of consumerism; the birth of suburbia.
Racial unrest divides the nation; Russia has a nuclear bomb; the Cold War; the brutal murder of 14-year-old black Chicagoan Emmett Till.
Rare archival films, iconic news footage and home movies during a decade of revolution; the first televised Presidential debate.
The legend of the American West as a feral and untamed land is a potent myth; from the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral to iconic showman Buffalo Bill, the spirit of the Wild West persists even as the dynamic region paves the way for modern-day America.
Eric Meyers
Narrator
Liev Schreiber
Nick Metcalfe
Producer
John Cavanagh
Charles Poe