Season 2
(1989)
Cast
Episodes
The Great Air Race of 1924 0.0
October 3, 1989
The first around-the-world air race, sponsored by the Army Air Service to prove that the airplane had a commercial futu…
Demon Rum 0.0
October 10, 1989
Prohibition's effect on Detroit, Michigan, the first major American city to "go dry," where smuggling liquor across the…
A Family Gathering 0.0
October 17, 1989
Lise Yasui explores three generations of her Japanese-American family - from their immigration to Oregon in the early 1…
The Great War: 1918 0.0
October 24, 1989
All lingering 19th-century notions of the romance of battle were replaced by the terrible reality of 20th-century mecha…
Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil 0.0
October 31, 1989
The tale of mavericks whose risk-taking, sweat and dreams changed an American industry. Starting with Spindletop, the f…
Forever Baseball 0.0
November 7, 1989
There is hardly a city, town or village without a baseball diamond. More than a game, baseball is a tradition, rite of …
Mr. Sears' Catalogue 0.0
November 14, 1989
They started selling watches. Then Richard Sears and Alva Curtis Roebuck started a revolution -- a "wish book" that mad…
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven 0.0
November 21, 1989
A stunning film portrait of Yosemite National Park. The film's narration is taken from using the 1851 diary of the firs…
Adam Clayton Powell 0.0
November 28, 1989
Affluent, handsome, light-skinned and blond, he could pass for white. But his message about "economics and jobs" would …
Journey to America 0.0
December 5, 1989
A tribute to the twelve million people who emigrated to the U.S. between 1890 and 1920. A recapturing of the journey th…
Ballad of a Mountain Man 0.0
December 12, 1989
Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a pioneer folklorist who in the 1920s began a campaign to preserve mountain music and dance. …
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice 0.0
December 19, 1989
Born into slavery, she became a journalist and newspaper owner in Memphis, and was radicalized following the lynching o…
Orphans of the Storm 0.0
December 26, 1989
In the summer of 1940, as the German Luftwaffe began its assault on England, 10,000 British children were sent on a per…
Forbidden City, USA 0.0
January 2, 1990
Before WWII, San Francisco's Chinatown was a separate world, closed to outsiders, ruled by rigid homeland customs. But …
Battle for Wilderness 0.0
January 9, 1990
The first major battle for wilderness preservation erupted over the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National P…
Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad 0.0
January 16, 1990
Men and women, black and white, risked their lives to carve an elaborate network of escape routes out of slavery in the…