01: Custer’s Last Stand | The Wild West

02: Great Plains | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray Mears finds out how 500,000 square miles of flat, treeless grassland was the setting for Wild West stories of...

02: Billy the Kid | The Wild West

Drama-documentary about Billy the Kid, notorious gunman of the Wild West. What is the case for the defence of a man who lived and died by t...

Seven Journeys In The American West | Secondary Schools

The story of the American West through the words of seven eye-witnesses - settlers, gold diggers, ranchers, homestead...

03: Industrial New York | Filthy Cities

Dan Snow looks at 19th century New York when migrants arrived in a city consumed by squalor, stench and soot.

01: Mountains | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

How the landscapes of America's three great mountain ranges - the Appalachians, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada - ...

03: The Gunfight at OK Coral | The Wild West

Drama-documentary after the famous shoot-out, Wyatt Earp was charged with murder and put on trial. So, was Wyatt Earp truly guil...

04: The Line | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

A drama-documentary about how two corporate giants raced to link the east and west coasts of America by rail.

Buffalo killings | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Between 1800 and 1890, the Pioneers killed over 30 million bison, leaving them nearly extinct in North America.

Gold and Boomtowns | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

As interest in gold mining grew, small towns and gold mining businesses developed almost overnight. Ray explore...

Cowboys and cattle | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray meets a third generation cowboy and learns about life as a rancher on the Great Plains, running cattle drives.

Pioneer routes | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray maps out the common routes of the Pioneers as they met and left the Rocky Mountains.

Stagecoaches | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray takes a ride on a refurbished stagecoach which, before the railroad, became the main transport choice for people ...

The Gold Rush | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray details the discovery of gold and why its influence drew so many West across America.

03: Deserts | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray Mears looks at how the landscapes of America's five great deserts, from the Great Basin desert to Arizona's Sonora...

03: The Dry Crusade | Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America

Examining the very beginnings of Prohibition from early colonial roots andnd the settlers of Kansas to the f...

Apache warriors | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray describes the war between the Apache's and the Frontier army that lasted over 40 years.

Blackfeet | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray meets the descendants of the Blackfeet Native American tribe. The plentiful bison were the lifeblood of the tribes a...

Death and the Pioneers | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray examines the types of illnesses common amongst the Pioneers and how many wouldn't survive the long trip.

Outlaws | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray discovers the truth posses and outlaws, the likes of which we see in Hollywood.

Pilgrim origins | The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind the Myth

The Pilgrims' story that ''Thanksgiving'' celebrates had a tricky beginning. A group of Evangelists were ousted fro...