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The story of the most important American exploration expedition in American history and the participants in it.

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

Lewis and Clark blaze a trail to the western waters in this epic satire and spoof on American ego.

The revivals of the Great Awakening shook Britain's North American colonies from spiritual slumber during the 1730s-1750s. In Virginia it touched men and women whose spiritual needs had been too long neglected by the legally established Anglican Church. In homes, meeting houses, and in open fields, rich and poor, black and white, men and women mingled to hear emotional messages of a personal God and salvation. The Great Awakening rattled and cracked the foundations of hierarchal authority and official religion from Georgia to New England, reverberating through the decades to the Revolution and the collapse of British rule.

The U.S. government sends Major Thomas Blake on a secret mission when the Bey of Tripoli starts demanding tribute from American merchant ships in the Mediterranean in the early 1800's. His pose as a Tory on the ship alienates his fellow passengers, Anne Ridgeway, and her brother Sam. Off Tripoli, the ship is captured by the Bey's pirates, but Blake makes a friend of the Bey when he saves his life. Blake learns that a servant girl, Zoltah, and her friends ate plotting to kill the Bey, and that the Bey also has a spy in the State Department, Tobias Sharpe, who sends advance information about American ship movements.

This short film deals with the latter part of June and early in July 1776, or what led up to, and finally resulted in, the drawing and consummation of America's most famous document.

When Thomas Jefferson charges Lewis and Clark to explore the future, history's "bravest" explorers take on present-day New York City.

Early in the 19th century, Lieutenant Nolan becomes involved in the Burr conspiracy. When Burr is tried for treason, Nolan refuses to reaffirm his allegiance to the United States and declares openly that he hopes never again to see or hear anything of the United States. He is court-martialed and sentenced to be placed on an American warship, never again to see his native land, or to hear mention of it. Years pass: Nolan is transferred from ship to ship in the Navy and sees action with Decatur at Algiers and later in an encounter with a pirate ship. Nolan's sweetheart, Anne Bissell, appeals in vain to a succession of Presidents to have him pardoned. When the Civil War begins, Nolan is a broken old man, passionate in his love for his country. He is finally pardoned by President Lincoln, but he dies on receipt of the news.

Federal Judge Douglas Ginsburg explores the promise and enduring influence of America's Declaration of Independence, both at home and around the world. This promissory note for liberty inspired over 100 nations seeking their independence. In the United States, it influenced the abolitionist movement, the Women's Suffrage movement, and iconic civil rights figures Frederick Douglass and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The story of Nathan Hale, an American soldier and spy from his days as a teacher to his eventual capture and execution.

An adaptation of a historic dinner between Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Representative James Madison, and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton that took place in June 1790, New York City. Pivotal topics were discussed, including the formation of a national bank and where to place the United States Capitol. The agreement they reached would have a drastic effect on the social and political developments of the budding United States.

Alex has a cold, but insists on working all night on his term paper on the Declaration of Independence - which he had used as an example to encourage his dad Steven, who out of inexperience has declined an invitation to testify before Congress in Washington on the funding of PBS. Alex 'wakes up' in a dream as a Philadelphia stable boy, with his uninterested mate 'Skipford', and they accidentally hear Thomas Jefferson turning down John Adams' request to write the Declaration, just because he would rather spend the night fluffing his wig. But Alex won't rest until he makes sure Jefferson does write it, on exactly the kind of paper and in the celebrated phrasing the brilliant student knows by heart.

This episode analyzes the reasons for and the consequences of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.

In theory, the filibuster was created to ensure bipartisanship in the US Senate. In practice, it has become a way to kill bills with only 41 Senate votes. John explains the strange origin of the filibuster, how its overuse made the Senate a place where even bipartisan bills go to die, and why filibustering should be abolished altogether. Also, Trump's Hurricane Dorian Sharpie Scandal, the UK PM Johnson's clash with the Parliament over his No-deal Brexit strategy, and Fox News' Stu Varney fanboys over Trump.

The Declaration of Independence set in motion a political experiment still alive today. The pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness was not easily achieved. To this day Democracy's fragile nature relies on the strength of a united purpose.