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The Best Episodes of America: A Personal History of the United States

Every episode of America: A Personal History of the United States ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of America: A Personal History of the United States!

First transmitted in 1972, Alistair Cooke's America was a series of thirteen, fifty-minute films in colour, written and narrated by Alistair Cooke. The programmes trace the history of the United States from the early voyages

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    America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 1 - The First Impact
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    #1 - The First Impact

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    Alistair Cooke explains his own fascination with the United States of America and tells the story of how he first came to the US and tells of the country that he found.

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  2. America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 2 - The New Found Land
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    #2 - The New Found Land

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    Alistair Cooke travels back to the discovery of the American continent by the Europeans and follows the settlement of the Spanish in the Southern continent and the French in the far North of the continent and later their migration into their respective areas of a land now known as the United States.

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  3. America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 3 - Home From Home
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    #3 - Home From Home

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    In this episode of the series, Cooke tracks the English venture into the New World during the 16th and 17th centuries, from the initial inspiration through to the landing at Jamestown and beyond...

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  4. America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 4 - Making a Revolution
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    #4 - Making a Revolution

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    By the middle of the 18th century, the American nation was not a nation at all but a number of separately governed colonies. In this edition of America, Alistair Cooke explores the reasoning of the colonists in rising together against the British king and tells of the rise of a young colonial soldier called George Washington...

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  5. America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 5 - Inventing a Nation
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    #5 - Inventing a Nation

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    Upon winning the War of Independence, the American colonists returned to their own independent colonies and settled down but all was not well. In this edition of America, Alistair Cooke discusses the coming together of the 13 independent colonies to form a new United States of America and how the men now known as the "Founding Fathers" went about inventing a nation.

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  6. America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 6 - Gone West
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    #6 - Gone West

    S1:E6

    Cooke discusses where the West begins and how and why in the early 19th century the West was conquered by outsiders who, in the process of doing so, displaced the Native Americans.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 7 - A Firebell in the Night
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    #7 - A Firebell in the Night

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    In this episode, Cooke travels to the Southern States to explore the world of the 19th century slave and the causes and effects of one of the bloodiest and bitterest wars in history - the American Civil War.

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  8. America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 8 - Domesticating A Wilderness
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    #8 - Domesticating A Wilderness

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    In the 1840s over the crest of the Rockies there lay the first successful community West of the United States, the residents called it the City of the Saints, it's more commonly known as Salt Lake City. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Americans headed further West, Cooke follows in their footsteps...

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  9. America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 9 - Money on the Land
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    #9 - Money on the Land

    S1:E9

    In the late 19th century, Americans started getting rich through business and technology. Alistair Cooke explores the rise of industry in the United States.

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  10. America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 10 - The Huddled Masses
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    #10 - The Huddled Masses

    S1:E10

    Three quarters of the population of the United States who call themselves "the American people" are descendants of immigrants from Asia, Africa and, most of all, from Europe. What impact did the flood of immigrants to the US have at the beginning of the 20th century - Alistair Cooke takes an in-depth look.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 11 - The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken
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    #11 - The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken

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    This edition looks at the 1920s, which saw America go from an era of unparalelled prosperity to the severest economic depression ever known.

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  12. America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 12 - Arsenal
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    #12 - Arsenal

    S1:E12

    This episode looks at the impact that warfare and the military has had on the history of America.

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  13. America: A Personal History of the United States Season 1 Episode 13 - The More Abundant Life
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    #13 - The More Abundant Life

    S1:E13

    To give Americans a "more abundant life" was the stated aim of FDR's `New Deal' in the 1930s. Alistair Cooke travels from New England to Hawaii to consider if this was achieved.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The First Impact" is the best rated episode of "America: A Personal History of the United States". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/12/1972. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The New Found Land".