Episode 2 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

Episode 1 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

Documentary showing 1920s America in colour for the first time.

Episode 6 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

The story of America’s criminal past, seen in colour for the first time using rare archive.

Episode 3 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

A look at America in the 1940s - the decade that transforms the nation - using rare archive footage seen in colour for the f...

Episode 8 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

In the early 20th century, leisure and recreation transformed American lives. Newly wealthy, the American society filled fre...

Episode 9 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

In the early 20th century, leisure and recreation transformed American lives. Newly wealthy, the American society filled fre...

01: The Roaring Twenties | Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America

Ed Asner narrates a documentary examining the effects of Prohibition in America in the 1920s and 30s. T...

American Voices: A History of America 1917-1941 | History File

A history of America, 1917-1941, through the eyes of a variety of characters from the era.

05: Little Britain | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

The Wall Street Crash and the rise of fascist politics in Europe caused chaos in 1930s Britain.

07: Hoover Dam | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

Over one hundred people died when Frank Crowe tried to tame the Colorado River by building the Hoover Dam.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Icons

Paralysed from the waist down, FDR's bold social and economic reforms turned a country on the brink of catastrophe into a superpower, and h...

The Day of the Wall Street Crash | 1929: The Great Crash

The beginning of the Wall Street Crash on the 24th October 1929.

07: 19207: Great Escape | People's Century

The cinema excites, inspires and influences people seeking escape from their usually dull lives. Hollywood booms in the 1920s, and...

08: 1929: Breadline | People's Century

The economic boom of the roaring twenties comes to a sudden halt in 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression. In the years after a dem...

09: Crime and Prohibition | Time to Remember

Material from the 50s newsreel documentary series Time to Remember tells the story of the media circus that surrounded gangsters...

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker achieve growing notoriety as they carry out a series of robberies with their gang in 1930s America.

S03E02: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre | Days That Shook the World

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.

The impact of the crash | 1929: The Great Crash

The immediate impact of the Wall Street Crash.

03: Boom and Bust | Twentieth Century History

History programme for schools narrated by John Tidmarsh. Today's programme looks at the 1920s, a prosperous time in the United ...

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...

Buy on margin | 1929: The Great Crash

An exploration of the use of buy on margin in the twenties in America.