Seasons & Episode
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EP1 - Coming to America
November. 17,2019
From Einstein-mania to Sicilian pizza, see how immigrants changed America’s identity, culture, and tastes.
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EP2 - Disasters
November. 24,2019
See how the worst American disasters of the 1900s led to new innovations and mitigations against future calamities.
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EP4 - Episode 4
December. 08,2019
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EP5 - Episode 5
December. 09,2019
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EP6 - Episode 6
December. 15,2019
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Synopsis
From the 1920s through the 1960s, America transformed from a young country on the rise into a global superpower. Using digital colorization technology, we present these formative decades as few have seen them, revisiting 50 vibrant years of good times and great despair, technological triumphs and natural disasters, and global villains and national heroes.
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