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Maiya May returns to Florida to learn how climate change is impacting ocean currents. She then goes to Georgia to meet Stacey Abrahms and learn about a non-profit. Later, Maiya returns to Florida to learn about nature. Part 6 of 6.
Investigators trace the rise and fall of a thriving metropolis in North America known as Cahokia. Bigger than London, Rome and Paris, the mighty civilisation exploded into existence in 900 AD but vanished less than 400 years later. Part 1 of 6.
The Copper Scroll may hold the secret to the location of the Ark of the Covenant, but experts must decode it in order to find its legendary treasure trove. Part 2 of 6.
Investigators search for the lost city of Pi-Ramesses in ancient Egypt, named for Ramesses II, who conducted the largest building program of his time and brought stability as a warrior-king. Part 3 of 6.
Since Howard Carter's discovery in 1922, archaeologists have been trying to unlock the secrets of Tutankhamen's tomb, including why it was hastily built, the black mould on the walls, and whether it also houses the tomb of Nefertiti. Part 4 of 6.
Rome created the largest empire in the ancient world. Its armies, organisation and building innovation created a vast territory linked by roads. Many of these cities lie in ruins today, others buried and many others are forgotten. They include Leptis Magna, Volubilis, Tipasa and Timgad in North Africa and, Baalbek, Jerash, Palmyra and Apamea in the Middle East.
January 1944 to June 1944. American and British troops are pinned down at Anzio for months, while at Monte Cassino, the killing goes on and on. African-Americans, incensed at the segregation of the armed forces, put pressure on the military to make some changes. In May, allied soldiers at Cassino and Anzio resume their drive northward in Italy, liberating Rome on 4 June, but they let the retreating German army get away. A series by Ken Burns. Part 6 of 14.
6 June 1944: D-Day. In the early hours of 6 June 1944, the invasion of France begins. A million-and-a-half men take part. It is the bloodiest day in American history since the Civil War, though the Allies succeed in tearing a 45-mile gap in Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall. By day's end more than 150,000 men have landed on French soil, and more men, equipment and supplies are coming ashore every hour. A series by Ken Burns. Part 7 of 14.
June 1944 to August 1944. American and British troops in Normandy are bogged down in the hedgerows, while in the Pacific, the marines fight their costliest battle to date on the island of Saipan. Back home, dreaded telegrams from the War Department begin arriving at a rate inconceivable just one year earlier. But by mid-August, the Germans are in full retreat out of France, and on 25 August, after four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated. A series by Ken Burns. Part 8 of 14.
Autumn 1944. In September of 1944, with their troops in Europe stalled on the German border having outrun their supply lines, Allied commanders gamble on a risky plan to drop thousands of airborne troops behind enemy lines in Holland. When the mission ends in disaster, it becomes painfully clear that the war in Europe will not end before winter. In the Pacific, on the island of Peleliu, the marines fight one of the most brutal campaigns of the war. A series by Ken Burns. Part 9 of 14.
Autumn 1944. In the late autumn of 1944 American soldiers suffer terrible losses when they are ordered into the forbidding and fiercely defended terrain of the Hürtgen Forest and the Vosges Mountains. In the Central Pacific, to the delight of audiences back home, General MacArthur returns to the island of Leyte. But months of bloody fighting lie ahead before the Philippine Islands, and the people imprisoned on them, can be liberated. A series by Ken Burns. Part 10 of 14.
