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It’s a show about arrogant builders who’ve scoffed at the laws of nature. They’ve defied the naysayers - and sometimes even gravity - by undertaking these amazing feats of engineering. Each story in this episode includes a fun physics lesson and a tale of human folly. We begin at the Erie Canal, a 363-mile long man-made waterway that was built in the 19th century by thousands of labourers using primitive hand tools. Then we’ll show how professional engineers connected a growing America by building magnificent bridges, intricate rail networks and a continent-wide system of freeways. And we’ll discover the extreme measures that engineers have taken to deliver water from distant rivers to kitchen sinks. It’s easy to take these modern marvels for granted. After all, we usually access roads, bridges and drinking water effortlessly. But behind many of our daily conveniences is a clever engineer, and a remarkable story.
It was often just a great man on a horse - Europe celebrated centuries of history by building monuments that were rarely imaginative, and never democratic. But in America, builders came up with creative, populist approaches to commemorating the past. In this episode we’ll explore the stories behind ten wholly-original American monuments, and the historical moments that inspired them. We’ll visit little-known locations like the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, a sculptural masterpiece dedicated to one of the first African-American units to serve in the Civil War; and we’ll explore the surprising stories behind American favourites like the Statue of Liberty, which was devised as a propaganda piece by French republican politicians. It’s an episode full of epic battles over how to remember America's past: from Maya Lin’s fight to design the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, to the ongoing controversies over confederate monuments across the South. We’ll discover pivotal moments in the evolution of American monuments when daring artists found new ways to honour our history.
This episode begins and ends on Broadway in New York. We’ll trace the street’s 400-year evolution: from Native American trail, to Dutch trading route, to the home of America’s first public transit service, to an electrically-lighted theatre district known as the 'Great White Way'. At the end of the programme, we’ll see how Broadway has become the poster child for the 'complete streets' movement, in which automobiles take a back seat to more sustainable forms of transit. Elsewhere in this episode we’ll ride from Boston to New York on a dirt 'highway', which was created for the nation’s first mail carriers. In New Orleans we’ll take America’s oldest streetcar line out to some of the nation’s first suburbs, and in Detroit we’ll drive a Model T along America’s first mile of concrete-paved road. We’ll explore a car-friendly street created by a 1920’s entrepreneur who predicted that Los Angeles would be dominated by the automobile; and take a horse and carriage on a Brooklyn parkway that was built on the proposition that streets should be scenic. It’s an episode about how streets have connected the nation, divided communities and changed the way Americans live, work and shop.
As media outlets become increasingly polarised, and as social media rules information feeds, where does propaganda come into play? This documentary demystifies the predominant methods of persuasion employed by those seeking power, analysing the present day and contextualising it by looking back at periods when propaganda defined nations and kept populations in check.
Using the testimonies of firefighters and their families, along with previously unused video and audio material, this award-winning film follows the dramatic stories of individual firemen through the unfolding tragedy as they risked their lives to save others on that fateful day.
The first major documentary to examine Davis' vast talent and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th century America. Sammy Davis, Jr. had the kind of career that can justifiably be described as legendary, so vast and multi-faceted that it was dizzying in its scope and scale. And yet, his life was complex, complicated and contradictory. Davis strove to achieve the American Dream in a time of racial prejudice and shifting political territory. He was the veteran of increasingly outdated show business traditions trying to stay relevant; he frequently found himself bracketed by the bigotry of white America and the distaste of black America; he was the most public black figure to embrace Judaism, attaching his identity to another persecuted minority. Featuring interviews with Billy Crystal, Jerry Lewis and Whoopi Goldberg and never-before-seen photographs and excerpts from his electric performances in television, film and concert.
Revealing more family strategies at work, and the heavy price the young pay in hostile takeovers. Part 6 of 12.
