Synopsis
In the 20th century, families like the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts built and spent massive fortunes. Political dynasties such as the Roosevelts mixed with this moneyed elite, and the press baron William Randolph Hearst filled his papers with stories about them. A young Joseph Kennedy plots to reach the heights of American Royalty, and his son John F Kennedy will change America forever.
Episode 2 | The Great American Buffalo
By the late 1880s, the buffalo teeter on the brink of extinction, but an unlikely collection of Americans have started a few private herds in different locations, and for different reasons.
Episode 1 | The Great American Buffalo
Ken Burns recounts how the collision between two opposing views of the natural world saw the buffalo, which had numbered in the tens of millions, driven to the brink of extinction.