America in Color

America in Color

  • 2017
  • 3 Seasons
  • 17 Episodes
  •  7.4  (8)
  •   Returning Series

From the 1920s through the 1960s, America transformed from a young country on the rise into a global superpower. Using digital colorization technology, we present these formative decades as few have seen them, revisiting 50 vibrant years of good times and great despair, technological triumphs and natural disasters, and global villains and national heroes.

America in Color
Seasons
Small Town Life
6. Small Town Life
December 15, 2019
Crimes of the Century
5. Crimes of the Century
December 09, 2019
Made in the USA
4. Made in the USA
December 08, 2019
Alaska
3. Alaska
December 02, 2019
At the dawn of the 20th century, most Americans think of Alaska as an icy unpopulated wilderness, but one event will change everything: the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896. Through remastered and colorized news footage and home movies, witness Alaska's evolution from a frozen wasteland at the edge of the world to the 49th state to join the Union. From boomtowns to volcanic blasts to Japanese invasions, this is the story of America's last frontier as you have never seen it before.
Disasters
2. Disasters
November 24, 2019
See how the worst American disasters of the 1900s led to new innovations and mitigations against future calamities.
Coming to America
1. Coming to America
November 17, 2019
From Einstein-mania to Sicilian pizza, see how immigrants changed America’s identity, culture, and tastes.
Description
From the 1920s through the 1960s, America transformed from a young country on the rise into a global superpower. Using digital colorization technology, we present these formative decades as few have seen them, revisiting 50 vibrant years of good times and great despair, technological triumphs and natural disasters, and global villains and national heroes.
  • Premiere Date
    July 02, 2017
  • Rating
    7.4  (8)