America The Story of Us (2010)

A sixnight miniseries presenting the history of how the United States was invented looking at the moments where Americans harnessed technology to advance human progress from the rigors of linking the continent by transcontinental railroad to triumphing over vertical space through the construction of steelstructured buildings The series also is a story of conflict with Native American peoples slavery the Revolutionary War that birthed the nation the Civil War that divided it and the great world war that shaped its future