Category: Americas

The Blues Lives On The Delta Blues Museum
Narrated by Morgan Freeman. Located in an old depot in ClarksdaleMississippi, where Muddy Waters boarded the train to carry the Blues to the world,...

The Ellis Island Immigration Museum
More than 100 million Americans can trace their ancestry to New York's Ellis Island. Ellis Island is more than a museumit is hallowed ground;...

Episode 2 Ships
Megastructures: Built from Disaster explores how accidents throughout the world have influenced the evolution of modern structural engineering. Ships Episode 2 - At seayou...

Episode 6 Skyscrapers
Megastructures: Built from Disaster explores how accidents throughout the world have influenced the evolution of modern structural engineering. Skyscrapers Episode 6 - The titans...

Episode 6 Removal
In September 2004on the last remaining site on the Mall in Washington D.C., the Smithsonian Institution opened the National Museum of the American Indian,...

American Eagle
Back from the brink of extinctionthe bald eagle is one of America's triumphant comeback stories. It is the the continent's most recognizable aerial predator...

Episode 7 Roads Across The Plains
In September 2004on the last remaining site on the Mall in Washington D.C., the Smithsonian Institution opened the National Museum of the American Indian,...

Episode 2 The Brooklyn Bridge
The period of over 125 years from the beginning of the 19th century saw the creation of some of the world's most remarkable feats...

Dinosaur Wars
In the late 19th centurypaleontologists Edward Cope and O.C. Marsh uncovered the remains of hundreds of prehistoric animals in the American West, including dozens...

Episode 5 The Panama Canal
The period of over 125 years from the beginning of the 19th century saw the creation of some of the world's most remarkable feats...