The epic history behind the creation of America, exploring how and why our ancestors came to this country.
Examine the massive immigration patterns of ethnic groups to the United States through the telling of historical events including the Dutch Fur Trade, the Great Potato Famine, the California Gold Rush and more.
Travel back through the 20th century to explore the roots of American music and discover the pioneers of the musical forms that combined on American soil to become the most pervasive music throughout the world.
Idealistic Revolutionary War rebels harass the Redcoats in British-held Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia in this adventure series which drew parallels with 1960s political activism.
The story of Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, an American patriot who fought the British Tories using unusual methods, becoming known as “The Swamp Fox.”
This documentary-series examines Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.
The story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men willing to sacrifice all for the common cause. How a once-loyal British subject rises to battle an empire in a liberty-or-death campaign to forge a new nation. And then how, at the zenith of his power, the victorious general voluntarily steps down, becoming what King George III would call “the greatest man in the world.”
Al centro della vicenda narrata, la figura leggendaria dell’abolizionista John Brown a cui si affianca quella di Henry Shackleford, un giovane schiavo che, colpito dalla figura di Brown, scappa travestendosi da donna (Brown continuerà crederlo una ragazza) e decide di schierarsi al suo fianco. I due si ritroveranno protagonisti in alcuni momenti chiave che porteranno alla guerra civile americana, come l’attacco ad Harpers Ferry nel 1859.
The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.
This 1984 miniseries chronicles the life of George Washington, the 1st President of the United States, from age 11 to age 51. Based on the biography by James Thomas Flexner.
Serie intorno alle vicende di una famiglia di Cowboy nel ranch 'La Ponderosa'.
Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation.
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
La serie narra le difficoltose vicissitudini di una tradizionale famiglia americana che vive in una sperduta fattoria, vicino a un paesino del Minnesota, nel periodo 1870-1890.
Warrior è una serie ambientata nell'America di fine '800, subito dopo la guerra di secessione. La città vive un periodo di grande sviluppo, potendo contare anche su 250.000 immigrati cinesi arrivati in America a cercare fortuna. Il sogno americano svanisce però rapidamente per la comunità cinese, che si trova ad affrontare il razzismo della popolazione locale e la violenza delle organizzazioni criminali, chiamate anche tong.
Fra i personaggi principali troviamo Ah Sahm, un maestro di arti marziali che dalla Cina sbarca a San Francisco alla ricerca della sorella. In seguito ad un violento litigio sulla nave, Ah Sahm viene venduto a uno dei clan più importanti della città, e si ritroverà, così, mafioso suo malgrado, al centro di un traffico di droga.
Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere and his famous midnight ride to warn colonial forces of the British approach. But history books don't tell of the man who sent Revere on his mission: Joseph Warren, America's least remembered founding father. Uncover the forgotten history of Warren and stories of other unsung heroes in our fight for independence.