America in Color - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
The 1920s
America undergoes it's greatest period of change and unprecedented growth; the 1920 Wall Street bombing in New York; the Greenwood massacre in Oklahoma. Watch the Model T roll, the Jazz Age erupt, and the stock market crash, like it has never been seen before--in color.
The 1930s
The Great Depression dominates the decade; Franklin Roosevelt's Presidency; the White House fire of 1930; home movies filmed by Lou Hoover. Witness the most significant moments of the 1930s, in color, through rarely seen archival footage and home movies.
The 1940s
See rare color footage of Pearl Harbor, internment camps, the Manhattan Project, America as the leader of the free world, a new era of consumerism, the birth of suburbia, and other seminal moments of the 1940s.
The 1950s
Witness the highs and lows of 1950s America, from consumerism to McCarthyism and beyond, in color. Included: racial unrest dividing the nation; Russia having a nuclear bomb; the Cold War; the brutal murder of 14-year-old black Chicagoan Emmett Till.
The 1960s
The 1960s: Revisit America during the turbulent 1960s, as we bring the dawn of modern America to colorful life. See rare archival films, iconic news footage, and home movies from a decade of revolution. Included: the first televised Presidential debate, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the first man on the Moon.
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