To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician father, his film spans more than half of the 20th century.
This comprehensive 15-part retrospective, anchored by Peter Jennings, takes an era-by-era look at America's evolution during the turbulent 20th century.
A heist goes awry as a group of Brooklyn mobsters settle their differences over women; as greed and jealousy undermine their pursuits, Vinny Gazzo (William DeMeo) obeys the order of his Godfather (Frank Vincent) and uses a double crossing dame to help him get even with his rivals.
In a nonaligned country, where a civil conflict is raging, a team of photographers follows a mercenary war lord, whose men wreak havoc among enemies and innocents alike.
The 1920s ushered in an era of great social change, general prosperity, Prohibition and what historians refer to as "modernity." We examine these great cultural changes and their effects on the nation.
We document the years that led up to the beginning of World War II. From burning books to Kristallnacht, we examines the anti-Semitism that eventually dominated German thinking.
An era of prosperity, optimism & invention rings in the new century as every American becomes aware of electricity, automobiles, motion pictures and even powered air flight.
We cover some of the major events of the immediate post-war years such as the Korean War, McCarthyism, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift and the adjustment of returning soldiers.
World War II was a total global conflict that affected and changed not only the lives of soldiers fighting the war but also those of non-combatants living in war zones.
The years 1941 through 1945. The human cost of World War II, shows the atrocities of Germany and Japan, firebombing by the Allies, the use of Atomic weapons, ending with the Nuremberg trials.
Within a few years the optimism of the first years of the decade would vanish, only to be replaced by the uncertainty of a new and unfamiliar world, and the national mourning of a fallen leader.
The years 1963 through 1968 remain some of the most violent and destructive years of American history. We examine some of the major events of those turbulent years.
We examine the mid and late 1970s and some of the major events of the era such as the energy crisis, racial unrest, the rise of the "Me Generation," unemployment and inflation, and the problems with Iran.
