Drama-documentary exploring General Custer's motives when, on a blistering hot Sunday in June 1876, 366 men of his 7th Cavalry a...
How the landscapes of America's three great mountain ranges - the Appalachians, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada - c...
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...
Ray Mears finds out how 500,000 square miles of flat, treeless grassland was the setting for Wild West stories of ...
Ray Mears looks at how the landscapes of America's five great deserts, from the Great Basin desert to Arizona's Sonoran...
Dan Snow looks at 19th century New York when migrants arrived in a city consumed by squalor, stench and soot.
Examining the very beginnings of Prohibition from early colonial roots andnd the settlers of Kansas to the fo...
Drama-documentary after the famous shoot-out, Wyatt Earp was charged with murder and put on trial. So, was Wyatt Earp truly guilt...
A drama-documentary about how two corporate giants raced to link the east and west coasts of America by rail.
Ray describes the war between the Apache's and the Frontier army that lasted over 40 years.
A HH movie trailer entitled, America: Who Really Discovered the Continent?
Ray meets the descendants of the Blackfeet Native American tribe. The plentiful bison were the lifeblood of the tribes a...
Between 1800 and 1890, the Pioneers killed over 30 million bison, leaving them nearly extinct in North America.
Ray meets a third generation cowboy and learns about life as a rancher on the Great Plains, running cattle drives.
Ray examines the types of illnesses common amongst the Pioneers and how many wouldn't survive the long trip.
As interest in gold mining grew, small towns and gold mining businesses developed almost overnight. Ray explore...
The one-way journey of a lifetime abroad the Mayflower (advertisement).
Ray discovers the truth posses and outlaws, the likes of which we see in Hollywood.
The Pilgrims' story that ''Thanksgiving'' celebrates had a tricky beginning. A group of Evangelists were ousted fro...
Ray speaks to a modern day Mountain Man about what life was like for the Pioneers who tried to earn money off...
Ray maps out the common routes of the Pioneers as they met and left the Rocky Mountains.
Puritans set sail to the New World on the Mayflower after the first boat sinks.
Ray explains about how the government rounded up and rid the Appalachian mountains of the Cherokee.
Rich Hall goes in search of the real American Indian, a people who have too often been stereotyped on film and in literature, visiting...
Documentary in which Neil Oliver explores the possible links between racism in America's Deep South and the Scottish settlers that first occupied it.
The story of the American West through the words of seven eye-witnesses - settlers, gold diggers, ranchers, homestead...
Ray meets a historian who takes him through life as a soldier who governed the early Pioneers and the harsh...
Ray takes a ride on a refurbished stagecoach which, before the railroad, became the main transport choice for people ...
Ray details the innovations of the Apache, including moccasins for footwear and use of the agave plant.
Ray tells of the Pioneers who first encountered Native American's and while most meetings ended in clashes, the Chero...
Ray tells the story of the Donner Party, a group of Pioneers who chose some poor routes through the Sierra Nevada...
Ray details the discovery of gold and why its influence drew so many West across America.
Ray visits old sod-houses built during the Homestead Act. The scheme encouraged families to grow crops off the P...
Documentary exploring the Pilgrims' journey west across the Atlantic in the 17th century. Celebrated each year at Thanksgiving, the e...
Ray meets some descendants of the Navajo who existed on the sparse and cruel terrain of Monument Valley and finds out w...
Ray explains the route Pioneers would take through the Great Plains and how naturally this was dictated by a river.
Ray explains what kind of people the Pioneers were and why they headed West to find a new way of life.
Ray meets a wagon master who recreates the conditions the Pioneers endured and what it took to travel in a wagon.
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