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American Dream

Season 1 2010

  • 2010-11-20T20:20:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 3h (3 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
Using remarkable archive footage and eyewitness testimony, this major three-part series explores the realities behind the idea of the 'American Dream' from the 1940s to the 1970s.

3 episodes

Series Premiere

2010-11-20T20:20:00Z

1x01 Plenty and Paranoia

Series Premiere

1x01 Plenty and Paranoia

  • 2010-11-20T20:20:00Z1h

After World War Two ended, Americans faced a future that seemed not only full of promise but also replete with danger. The United States emerged as the richest and most powerful nation in the world yet its safety and even its existence were widely perceived to be threatened as never before.

2010-11-27T20:20:00Z

1x02 A Dream Denied

1x02 A Dream Denied

  • 2010-11-27T20:20:00Z1h

American Dream looks at those who could not square the rhetoric of the dream with the reality of their lives, and those who wanted a different dream and a different America. It looks at a range of experiences: from Japanese and African Americans during the Second World War to radical groups of the seventies like the Weather Underground and the American Indian Movement.

2010-12-04T20:20:00Z

1x03 One Nation Under God

1x03 One Nation Under God

  • 2010-12-04T20:20:00Z1h
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