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- Elaborate reenactments are juxtaposed with comments by historians in this glossy review of America's "Second War of Independence" against Britain (1812-15). Included: the causes of the conflict; American designs on Canada; the burning of Washington D.C.; the Battle of New Orleans. Edward Herrmann narrates.
- Explore the story of the early days of American westward expansion. Daniel Boone recounts the exciting experiences and unexpected consequences associated with moving west. Learn abut the risks and grueling personal hardships of creating new settlements.
- Unprepared for a protracted war, the huge number of prisoners of war overwhelmed both sides ability to hold them. Coupled with the bitter animosity toward the enemy this lead to inhuman conditions in prisoner of war camps. This program tells the history of the worst of the Union prison camps, Camp Douglas, in the context of the attitudes and events outside the camp.
- By the mid-eighteenth century, Colonial America wanted to expand beyond the Allegheny mountain range. One of the few possible passages to the west was the Cumberland gap, a buffalo trace that led into a dangerous and vast wilderness know as "Kanta-ke." One man would change all that...his name was Daniel Boone. This is the story of how that famous frontiersman became the American Moses and initiated the westward migration into the "Dark and Bloody Ground"--a movement that would continue for more than another century. Authentically and beautifully filmed on remote locations, award-winning Native Sun Productions recaptures the self-reliant spirit of a desperate frontier people who chose to risk everything so they could live a free life in the wilderness beyond the mountains.
- During the 18th c., an irresistible human tide swept against the western mountains of Virginia, anxious to spill beyond these natural barriers, into a vast and dangerous wilderness to the west. Here, dreams could be fulfilled by those courageous enough to take on the monumental risks. The passageway to this "promised land" was an old buffalo trace known as the Wilderness Road. This is the story about the collision course of cultures. One man who helped shape this era of the American Revolution, was Joseph Martin. A companion of Daniel Boone, Martin established one of the earliest wilderness outposts in Powell's Valley, that would serve as a refuge against the harsh realities of the frontier.