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America: A Personal History of the United States

7.019721 seasonTV SeriesDocumentary

First transmitted in 1972, Alistair Cooke's America was a series of thirteen, fifty-minute films in colour, written and narrated by Alistair Cooke. The programmes trace the history of the United States from the early voyages of discovery to the present.

ProducerMichael Gill

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Seasons & Episodes

E1
The First Impact
Nov 12, 1972
E2
The New Found Land
Nov 19, 1972
E3
Home From Home
Nov 26, 1972
E4
Making a Revolution
Dec 3, 1972
E5
Inventing a Nation
Dec 10, 1972
E6
Gone West
Dec 17, 1972
E7
A Firebell in the Night
Dec 24, 1972
E8
Domesticating A Wilderness
Dec 31, 1972
E9
Money on the Land
Jan 7, 1972
E10
The Huddled Masses
Jan 14, 1973
E11
The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken
Jan 21, 1972
E12
Arsenal
Jan 28, 1973
E13
The More Abundant Life
Feb 4, 1973

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America: A Personal History of the United States has 1 season in total (13 episodes). The series concluded in 1973.

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