America in Color

America undergoes its greatest period of change and unprecedented growth; the 1920 Wall Street bombing; the Greenwood massacre.

The Great Depression dominates the decade; Franklin Roosevelt's Presidency; the White House fire of 1930; home movies filmed by Lou Hoover.

America as the leader of the free world; Pearl Harbor; a new era of consumerism; the birth of suburbia.

Racial unrest divides the nation; Russia has a nuclear bomb; the Cold War; the brutal murder of 14-year-old black Chicagoan Emmett Till.

Rare archival films, iconic news footage and home movies during a decade of revolution; the first televised Presidential debate.