Season 11 (1998)

America 1900
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November 18, 1998 • 55m

Over one hundred years ago, Americans looked forward to the uncertainty of a new century with a mixture of confidence, optimism an...Read more

Race for the Superbomb
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January 11, 1999 • 55m

At the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top secret program in New Mexico to build a weapon even more powerful t...Read more

Hoover Dam
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January 18, 1999 • 55m

Rising more than 700 feet above the raging waters of the Colorado River, it was called one of the greatest engineering works in hi...Read more

Alone on the Ice
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February 8, 1999 • 55m

In June 1934, Richard Byrd lay alone in a small hut within the polar ice, hovering near death. No one before Byrd had ever experie...Read more

Rescue at Sea
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February 15, 1999 • 55m

On January 23, 1909, two ships -- one carrying Italian immigrants to New York City, the other, American tourists to Europe -- coll...Read more

Meltdown at Three Mile Island
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February 22, 1999 • 55m

At 4:00am on March 28, 1979, a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power facility near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suddenly over...Read more

Lost in the Grand Canyon
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April 5, 1999 • 55m

In the summer of 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran led the first expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Jo...Read more

MacArthur (1): Destiny
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May 17, 1999 • 55m

Part 1 of a two-part biography of Douglas MacArthur takes "America's first soldier" from his brilliant WWI service into WWII, when...Read more

MacArthur (2): The Politics of War
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May 18, 1999 • 55m

The conclusion of "MacArthur" focuses on his "return" to the Philippines in 1944, his years as Supreme Allied Commander in Japan a...Read more

Fly Girls
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May 24, 1999 • 55m

During WWII, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military. Wives, mothers, actresses and debutantes who join...Read more