Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | unknown
Year: 2007 | 2008


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Archaeology: Unearthing Our Past

23 October 2007

Danny Shorago ... Narrator

Season 1, Episode 2: Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 3: Colonel Lawrence's War: T.E. Lawrence and Arabia

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 4: From Slavery to Freedom

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 5: Theodore Roosevelt and the American Century

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 6: Ecology: Pulse of the Planet

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 7: American Dreams: Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post

23 October 2007

Danny Shorago ... Narrator

Season 1, Episode 8: Art Rebellion: The Making of the Modern

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 9: Edgar Degas: Reluctant Rebel

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 10: Braque & Picasso: A Collaboration Cubed

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 11: Giacomo Puccini: Music of the Heart

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 12: It's Opera!

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 13: The Archduke's Last Journey: End of an Era

23 October 2007

Danny Shorago ... Narrator

Season 1, Episode 14: Powder Keg: Europe 1900 to 1914

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 15: Sigmund Freud: Exploring the Unconscious

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 16: Carl Jung and the Journey of Self Discovery

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 17: Psychology: Charting the Human Mind

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 18: Seeking Truth: The Life of Leo Tolstoy

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 19: Unquiet Voices: Russian Writers and the State

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 20: Aristotle: Creating Foundations

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 21: Ancient Questions: Philosophy and Our Search for Meaning

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 22: Jiddu Krishnamurti: The Reluctant Messiah

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 23: Annie Besant: An Unlikely Rebel

23 October 2007

Danny Shorago ... Narrator

Season 1, Episode 24: Medicine in the Middle Kingdom

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 25: Eastern Spirituality: The Road to Enlightenment

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 26: Thomas Edison: Lighting Up the World

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 27: Invention and Innovation: What's Behind a Good Idea?

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 28: The Mystery of Edward Stratemeyer

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 29: Wanted: Dead or Alive - Pancho Villa and the American Invasion of Mexico

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 30: General John J. Pershing and His American Army

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 31: George S. Patton: American Achilles

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 32: Easter Rising: The Poets' Rebellion

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 33: The Passions of William Butler Yeats

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 34: Sean O'Casey vs. Ireland

23 October 2007

Danny Shorago ... Narrator

Season 1, Episode 35: Ireland: The Power of the Poets

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 36: Winston Churchill: The Lion's Roar

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 37: Demanding the Vote: The Pankhursts and British Suffrage

23 October 2007

Season 1, Episode 38: Fighting for the Vote: Women's Suffrage in America

23 October 2007


Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Siegfried Sassoon: A War Poet's Journey

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 2: Robert Graves and the White Goddess

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 3: I Am France: The Myth of Charles de Gaulle

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 4: The Somme: A Storm of Steel

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 5: Marshal Pétain's Fall from Grace

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 6: Flirting with Danger: The Fantasy of Mata Hari

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 7: Into the Furnace: The Battle of Verdun

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 8: Reading the Enemy's Mind: Espionage in World War I

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 9: Chasing the Phantom: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 10: Dreaming of Africa: The Life of Frederick Selous

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 11: At Home and Abroad: The Two Faces of Jan Smuts

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 12: Albert Schweitzer: Reverence for Life

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 13: Congo: A Curse of Riches

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 14: Waging Peace: The Rise of Pacifism

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 15: Blood Red: The Life and Death of Manfred von Richthofen

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 16: Anthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 17: Flying High for France: The Lafayette Escadrille

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 18: War in the Third Dimension: Aerial Warfare in World War I

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 19: Karl: The Last Habsburg Emperor

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 20: V.I. Lenin: History Will Not Forgive Us

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 21: The Russian Revolution: All Power to the Soviets!

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 22: Impresario: Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 23: Franz Kafka's Dark Truth

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 24: Ballet: The Art of Dance

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 25: Col. Lawrence's War: T.E. Lawrence and Arabia

18 December 2007

Season 2, Episode 26: Lines in the Sand: The Middle East and the Great War

18 December 2007


Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Unhealed Wounds: The Life of Ernest Hemingway

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 2: The Secret Life of Edith Wharton

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 3: Lowell Thomas: American Storyteller

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 4: The French Foreign Legion: The World's Most Legendary Fighting Force

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 5: For the People, Despite the People: The Ataturk Revolution

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 6: The Greedy Heart of Halide Edib

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 7: Dracula: Fact and Fiction

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 8: The Ottoman Empire: A World of Difference

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 9: Bronislaw Malinowski: God Professor

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 10: Anthropology: Looking at the Human Condition

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 11: New Guinea: Paradise in Peril

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 12: Woodrow Wilson: American Idealist

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 13: Gertrude Bell: Iraq's Uncrowned Queen

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 14: Ho Chi Minh: The Price of Freedom

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 15: Paul Robeson: Scandalize My Name

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 16: Robert Goddard: Mr. Rocket Science

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 17: The Best Intentions: The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 18: Al 'Scarface' Capone: The Original Gangster

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 19: Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 20: On the Trail of Eliot Ness

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 21: Louis Armstrong: Ambassador of Jazz

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 22: Jazz: Rhythms of Freedom

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 23: Prohibition: America on the Rocks

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 24: Hellfighters: Harlem's Heroes of World War I

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 25: Tin Pan Alley: Soundtrack of America

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 26: Broadway: America Center Stage

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 27: Wonderful Nonsense: The Algonquin Round Table

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 28: Erich Von Stroheim: The Profligate Genius

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 29: The World of John Ford

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 30: Irving Thalberg: Hollywood's Boy Wonder

29 April 2008

Season 3, Episode 31: The Rise of the Moguls: The Men Who Built Hollywood

29 April 2008


Unknown Season


New Gods for Old

29 April 2008

The Promise of Progress

23 October 2007

H.W. Brands ... Himself

War and Revolution

18 December 2007

H.W. Brands ... Himself

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