Season 3
(1990)
Cast
Episodes
Lindbergh 0.0
August 27, 1990
At 25, Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in Paris, the first man to fly across the Atlantic -- handsome, talented, and brave…
Nixon (1): The Quest 0.0
October 15, 1990
He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House and then brought h…
Nixon (2): Triumph 0.0
October 15, 1990
He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House and then brought h…
Nixon (3): The Fall 0.0
October 15, 1990
He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House and then brought h…
God Bless America and Poland, Too 0.0
October 22, 1990
Frank Popiolek was 14 when he came to America in 1911, one of 2 million Polish immigrants who made the journey. He sett…
Insanity on Trial 0.0
October 29, 1990
On July 2, 1881, Charles Julius Guiteau shot and fatally wounded President James A. Garfield in the lobby of the Baltim…
The Satellite Sky 0.0
November 5, 1990
Few events shocked America more than the news in 1957 that Russia had launched the first satellite. It was an assault o…
The Crash of 1929 0.0
November 19, 1990
In 1929, while the stock market was rising, there were few critics. It was a "New Era" when everyone could get rich. Bu…
The Iron Road 0.0
November 26, 1990
A tale of high adventure, enormous human effort and engineering brilliance. On May 2, 1869, when the last railroad spik…
French Dance Tonight 0.0
December 10, 1990
When French settlers, exiled from Nova Scotia, migrated to Louisiana in the 1750s, they mixed with African Americans, A…
After the Crash 0.0
January 7, 1991
After the stock market crashed in 1929, thousands suffered unemployment and poverty in the Great Depression. The most d…
Los Mineros 0.0
January 28, 1991
The story of Mexican American miners -- "los mineros" -- whose pitched labor battles, beginning with the first strike i…
Coney Island 0.0
February 4, 1991
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny spit of New York real estate…