Birth of America (Trailer) | Horrible Histories

Mayflower cruises | Horrible Histories

The one-way journey of a lifetime abroad the Mayflower (advertisement).

Puritans and the Mayflower | Horrible Histories

Puritans set sail to the New World on the Mayflower after the first boat sinks.

Seven Journeys In The American West | Secondary Schools

The story of the American West through the words of seven eye-witnesses - settlers, gold diggers, ranchers, homestead...

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: 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.

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.

The Homestead Act | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray visits old sod-houses built during the Homestead Act. The scheme encouraged families to grow crops off the P...

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...

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.

The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind the Myth

Documentary exploring the Pilgrims' journey west across the Atlantic in the 17th century. Celebrated each year at Thanksgiving, the e...

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...

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...

The Cherokee | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray tells of the Pioneers who first encountered Native American's and while most meetings ended in clashes, the Chero...

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: Billy the Kid | The Wild West

Drama-documentary about Billy the Kid, notorious gunman of the Wild West. What is the case for the defence of a man who lived and died by th...

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: 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...

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...