2: Billy the Kid | The Wild West

1: Custer's Last Stand | The Wild West

Drama-documentary exploring General Custer's motives when, on a blistering hot Sunday in June 1876, 366 men of his 7th Cavalry attacke...

1: Mountains | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

How the landscapes of America's three great mountain ranges - the Appalachians, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada - c...

2: Great Plains | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray Mears finds out how 500,000 square miles of flat, treeless grassland was the setting for Wild West stories of ...

3: Deserts | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray Mears looks at how the landscapes of America's five great deserts, from the Great Basin desert to Arizona's Sonoran...

3: Industrial New York | Filthy Cities

Dan Snow looks at 19th century New York when migrants arrived in a city consumed by squalor, stench and soot.

3: The Dry Crusade | Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America

Examining the very beginnings of Prohibition from early colonial roots andnd the settlers of Kansas to the fo...

3: The Gunfight at OK Coral | The Wild West

Drama-documentary after the famous shoot-out, Wyatt Earp was charged with murder and put on trial. So, was Wyatt Earp truly guilt...

4: The Line | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

A drama-documentary about how two corporate giants raced to link the east and west coasts of America by rail.

Apache warriors | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray describes the war between the Apache's and the Frontier army that lasted over 40 years.

Blackfeet | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray meets the descendants of the Blackfeet Native American tribe. The plentiful bison were the lifeblood of the tribes a...

Buffalo killings | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Between 1800 and 1890, the Pioneers killed over 30 million bison, leaving them nearly extinct in North America.

Cowboys and cattle | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray meets a third generation cowboy and learns about life as a rancher on the Great Plains, running cattle drives.

Death and the Pioneers | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray examines the types of illnesses common amongst the Pioneers and how many wouldn't survive the long trip.

Gold and Boomtowns | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

As interest in gold mining grew, small towns and gold mining businesses developed almost overnight. Ray explore...

Outlaws | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray discovers the truth posses and outlaws, the likes of which we see in Hollywood.

Pilgrim origins | The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind the Myth

The Pilgrims' story that ''Thanksgiving'' celebrates had a tricky beginning. A group of Evangelists were ousted fro...

Pioneer Mountain Men | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray speaks to a modern day Mountain Man about what life was like for the Pioneers who tried to earn money off...

Pioneer routes | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray maps out the common routes of the Pioneers as they met and left the Rocky Mountains.

Removal of the Cherokee | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray explains about how the government rounded up and rid the Appalachian mountains of the Cherokee.

Rich Hall's Inventing the Indian

Rich Hall goes in search of the real American Indian, a people who have too often been stereotyped on film and in literature, visiting reser...