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Documentary showing 1920s America in colour for the first time.
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UK only Staff and students of licensed education establishments only Cannot be adapted
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Episode 10 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
In the 20th century, families like the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts built and spent massive fortunes. Political dynasties s...
Episode 11 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
From humble beginnings, Hollywood became the world’s leading multi-billion dollar industry of glitz, glamour, money and fam...
Episode 2 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
A look at 1930s America using rare and unseen footage and in colour for the first time.
Episode 3 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
A look at America in the 1940s - the decade that transforms the nation - using rare archive footage seen in colour for the f...
Episode 4 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
To Americans the 1950s are the golden years. Having recovered from World War II, the life of the nation was on the up. The n...
Episode 5 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
A look at America in the 1960s - a decade of revolution that delivers the modern America we recognise today - in colour for ...
Episode 6 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
The story of America’s criminal past, seen in colour for the first time using rare archive.
Episode 7 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
America lead the world in industrial innovation in the early 20th century.
Episode 8 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
In the early 20th century, leisure and recreation transformed American lives. Newly wealthy, the American society filled fre...
Episode 9 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
1: The Roaring Twenties | Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America
Ed Asner narrates a documentary examining the effects of Prohibition in America in the 1920s and 30s. Th...
The crash | 1929: The Great Crash
The attempts to prevent the crash as it was happening.
The Day of the Wall Street Crash | 1929: The Great Crash
The beginning of the Wall Street Crash on the 24th October 1929.
The impact of the crash | 1929: The Great Crash
The immediate impact of the Wall Street Crash.
5: Roosevelt and the New Deal | Twentieth Century History
President F.D. Roosevelt attempted to solve America's economic problems in the 1930s with the New Deal. With the he...
8: 1929: Breadline | People's Century
The economic boom of the roaring twenties comes to a sudden halt in 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression. In the years after a demo...
5: Little Britain | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain
The Wall Street Crash and the rise of fascist politics in Europe caused chaos in 1930s Britain.
3: Boom and Bust | Twentieth Century History
History programme for schools narrated by John Tidmarsh. Today's programme looks at the 1920s, a prosperous time in the United S...
Buy on margin | 1929: The Great Crash
An exploration of the use of buy on margin in the twenties in America.
Consumerism and liberty bonds | 1929: The Great Crash
An exploration of the consumerist culture of the roaring twenties in America.
Roosevelt | 1929: The Great Crash
The beginning of Roosevelt's presidency and his investigation into the crash.
S3E2: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre | Days That Shook the World
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.
Stocks | 1929: The Great Crash
The twenties in America saw a boom in people buying stocks.
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...
6: 1924: On the Line | People's Century
Henry Ford uses Taylorism, division of labour and the assembly line to manufacture automobiles, and other industries in the United St...
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