The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind the Myth

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...

2: 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 ...

1: Custer's Last Stand | The Wild West

Drama-documentary exploring General Custer's motives when, on a blistering hot Sunday in June 1876, 366 men of his 7th Cavalry attacke...

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.

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...

The Donner Party | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray tells the story of the Donner Party, a group of Pioneers who chose some poor routes through the Sierra Nevada...

1: 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 - c...

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.

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...

The Homestead Act | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray visits old sod-houses built during the Homestead Act. The scheme encouraged families to grow crops off the P...

3: 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.

3: 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 fo...

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.

The Cherokee | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray tells of the Pioneers who first encountered Native American's and while most meetings ended in clashes, the Chero...

The Oregon Trail | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray explains the route Pioneers would take through the Great Plains and how naturally this was dictated by a river.

The Pioneers | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray explains what kind of people the Pioneers were and why they headed West to find a new way of life.

2: 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 th...

3: 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 Sonoran...

3: 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 guilt...

4: 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.