Each episode focuses on a few months in history and what was going on at the time. Politics, society, music, and other subjects are explored. Interviews with people involved with the stories are featured.
Where to Watch Season 1
26 Episodes
Summer of 69
E1
Summer of 69Woodstock; Manson Family murders; Apollo 11; The Smothers Brothers; Arlo Guthrie; Diahann Carroll.
13 Days in October 1962
E2
13 Days in October 1962The Cuban Missile Crisis; The Seattle World's Fair
Autumn 1956
E3
Autumn 1956The Suez Crisis; Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign; The Ten Commandments.
Forty Days of Spring 1970
E4
Forty Days of Spring 1970Invasion of Cambodia; Kent State shootings; Student Strike; Apollo 13; COINTELPRO; release of the films M*A*S*H and Patton; development of the first microprocessors
Halloween, 1938
E5
Halloween, 1938The War of the Worlds radio broadcast and panic; Adolf Hitler; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Breaking Barriers 1954
E6
Breaking Barriers 1954Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine; The Army-McCarthy Hearings; The first hydrogen bomb; Brown v. Board of Education
Together And Apart 1943
E7
Together And Apart 1943The home front; The Detroit race riot of 1943.
Pursuit Of Power Autumn 1973
E8
Pursuit Of Power Autumn 1973The Yom Kippur War; The OPEC oil embargo; Women's rights movement; The Riggs-King tennis match
All Shook Up Autumn 1957
E9
All Shook Up Autumn 1957School desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas; Sputnik; American Bandstand; Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon and the US Open; West Side Story
Secrets And Surprises - Fall, 1948
E10
Secrets And Surprises - Fall, 1948The Berlin Airlift; The 1948 presidential election; LP albums
Inner Struggles Autumn 1975
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Inner Struggles Autumn 1975Patty Hearst; assassination attempts on Gerald Ford by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Sarah Jane Moore; Ali/Frazier III; Disco.
Fear And Frustration Winter 1952
E12
Fear And Frustration Winter 1952The election of Dwight D. Eisenhower; the Red Scare; the McCarran-Walter Act.
Summer 1939
E13
Summer 1939The New York World's Fair; The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind; "God Bless America".[
Winds Of Change - Winter, 1968
E14
Winds Of Change - Winter, 1968The Tet Offensive; The 1968 Winter Olympics; Lyndon B. Johnson decides not to seek re-election; The 1968 presidential primaries
A Crowded Room - Fall, 1949
E15
A Crowded Room - Fall, 1949Levittown, New York; Early television; Soviet nuclear weapons
Gone With The Wind 1939
E16
Gone With The Wind 1939Gone With The Wind
Between The Lines - Summer, 1972
E17
Between The Lines - Summer, 1972The Watergate scandal; The continuing Vietnam War; The Munich massacre
Up Against The Wall Summer 1961
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Up Against The Wall Summer 1961The Berlin Wall; Mickey Mantle's and Roger Maris' pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record; the Baby Boom; Newton Minow's Wasteland Speech; the Freedom Rides; folk music
Liberation Summer - 1944
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Liberation Summer - 1944War correspondents; The Liberation of Paris; Women in wartime
Cover Stories Spring 1960
E20
Cover Stories Spring 1960Francis Gary Powers; Student protests at Berkeley; Elvis Presley leaves the Army
Period of Adjustment Sutumn 1946
E21
Period of Adjustment Sutumn 1946Soldiers return home from Europe following World War II; the G.I. Bill; sweeping Republican victories in both the House and Senate
Speaking Out Summer 1963
E22
Speaking Out Summer 1963John F. Kennedy's Ich bin ein Berliner speech in West Berlin; Kennedy vs. George Wallace over desegregating the University of Alabama
Duels In The Sun Campaign 1952
E23
Duels In The Sun Campaign 1952The Soviet Union competes at its first Olympics
One Day April 12, 1961
E24
One Day April 12, 1961April 12, 1961; Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth.
Long Winter, Short Spring 1937
E25
Long Winter, Short Spring 1937The Great Depression; the Flint Sit-Down Strike against General Motors; Swing music
Dangerous Assumptions: Spring 1953
E26
Dangerous Assumptions: Spring 1953The execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay climb Mount Everest: the Academy Awards are broadcast on television for the first time
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