America: Our Defining Hours
A nation shaped by adversity; these are the stories of the challenges that helped shape a nation; surviving the starving time of the first colonies; battling for independence; heading west into the unknown; and sparking a civil war.
- 2020-2020
- 1 season
- History Channel
- Documentary
A nation shaped by adversity; these are the stories of the challenges that helped shape a nation; surviving the starving time of the first colonies; battling for independence; heading west into the unknown; and sparking a civil war.
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2020
Episode 1
A New Beginning
Sun, Jul 5, 2020 86 mins
Surviving the 'starving time' of the first colonies; battling their mother country for independence; heading out to the frontier and west into the unknown; sparking a resistance to slavery that brings the United States to the brink of war.
Episode 2
Birth of Freedom
Sun, Jul 12, 2020 82 mins
America is forged in the fires of adversity. These stories chart the challenges that helped shape a nation. In the mid-1800s, America faces its darkest hour yet. Abraham Lincoln is elected President of a United States on the brink of Civil War; the nation that emerges now creates great wealth--but not for everyone; Teddy Roosevelt steps forward, bringing fierce leadership on behalf of the working man--his aim: to hold the nation together.
Episode 3
Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself
Sun, Jul 19, 2020 83 mins
As the twentieth century continues, America faces perhaps its most daunting challenges yet. The 1930s brings the greatest economic crisis in its history; FDR offers the troubled nation a New Deal, but there are clouds on the horizon; Pearl Harbor is a lightning bolt to the American soul, and in command of the allied invasion, General Dwight D Eisenhower; the U.S. elects its youngest commander-in-chief, 46-year-old John F. Kennedy; and on a bridge over the Alabama river, Martin Luther King's fight for equal rights will face its fiercest test. Then, on a bright September morning in 2001, America faces a new crisis: sudden, overwhelming and deadly.
