America in Color

Colorized home movies from the early 20th Century reveal day-to-day life in small towns across the country.

Archival footage shows how technological innovations, two world wars and consumerism helped build the richest economy in the world.

Rare footage tracks different immigrant families searching for the American dream, including Albert Einstein in Germany, a Russian-Jewish family in Maine, a Mexican-American family in Texas, and a child of Italian immigrants, Frank Sinatra.

In the early 20th century, new leisure and recreation opportunities transform American lives; includes color footage of early amusement parks, campgrounds and sports arenas.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, industrialists and inventors revolutionize every aspect of American life; the stories of the Ford, Firestone and Edison families become intertwined in a way that drives America's transformation.

Rare archival films, iconic news footage and home movies during a decade of revolution; the first televised Presidential debate.

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Racial unrest divides the nation; Russia has a nuclear bomb; the Cold War; the brutal murder of 14-year-old black Chicagoan Emmett Till.

America as the leader of the free world; Pearl Harbor; a new era of consumerism; the birth of suburbia.

America as the leader of the free world; Pearl Harbor; a new era of consumerism; the birth of suburbia.

The Great Depression dominates the decade; Franklin Roosevelt's Presidency; the White House fire of 1930; home movies filmed by Lou Hoover.

America undergoes it's greatest period of change and unprecedented growth; the 1920 Wall Street bombing; the Greenwood massacre.

No episode description is available yet.

No episode description is available yet.

No episode description is available yet.

Rare footage tracks different immigrant families searching for the American dream, including Albert Einstein in Germany, a Russian-Jewish family in Maine, a Mexican-American family in Texas, and a child of Italian immigrants, Frank Sinatra.

In the early 20th century, new leisure and recreation opportunities transform American lives; includes color footage of early amusement parks, campgrounds and sports arenas.

Colorized home movies from the early 20th Century reveal day-to-day life in small towns across the country.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, industrialists and inventors revolutionize every aspect of American life; the stories of the Ford, Firestone and Edison families become intertwined in a way that drives America's transformation.

Archival footage shows how technological innovations, two world wars and consumerism helped build the richest economy in the world.