2007-10-23 0/10
Overview
A series of documentaries covering a wealth of historical epochs touched upon in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992).
Director :
Writer : David R. O'Dell, Mark Page
Cast
Danny Shorago
H.W. Brands
John Parsons
David Silbey
Seasons List
Season 1
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1. Archaeology: Unearthing Our Past
2. Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun
3. Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
4. From Slavery to Freedom
5. Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century
6. Ecology - Pulse of the Planet
7. American Dreams - Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post
8. Art Rebellion - The Making of the Modern
9. Edgar Degas - Reluctant Rebel
10. Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed
11. Giacomo Puccini - Music of the Heart
12. It's Opera!
13. The Archduke's Last Journey - End of an Era
14. Powder Keg - Europe 1900 to 1914
15. Sigmund Freud - Exploring the Unconscious
16. Carl Jung and the Journey to Self Discovery
17. Psychology - Charting the Human Mind
18. Seeking Truth - The Life of Leo Tolstoy
19. Unquiet Voices - Russian Writers and the State
20. Aristotle - Creating Foundations
21. Ancient Questions - Philosophy and Our Search for Meaning
22. Jiddu Krishnamurti - The Reluctant Messiah
23. Annie Besant - An Unlikely Rebel
24. Medicine in the Middle Kingdom
25. Eastern Spirituality - The Road to Enlightenment
26. Thomas Edison - Lighting Up the World
27. Invention and Innovation - What's Behind a Good Idea?
28. The Mystery of Edward Stratemeyer
29. Wanted: Dead or Alive - Pancho Villa and the American Invasion of Mexico
30. General John J. Pershing and His American Army
31. George S. Patton - American Achilles
32. Easter Rising - The Poets' Rebellion
33. The Passions of William Butler Yeats
34. Sean O'Casey vs. Ireland
35. Ireland - The Power of the Poets
36. Winston Churchill - The Lion's Roar
37. Demanding the Vote - The Pankhursts and British Suffrage
38. Fighting for the Vote - Women's Suffrage in America
39. Historical Lecture: The Promise of Progress
Season 2
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1. The Somme - A Storm of Steel
2. Siegfried Sassoon - A War Poet's Journey
3. Robert Graves and the White Goddess
4. I Am France - The Myth of Charles de Gaulle
5. Into the Furnace - The Battle of Verdun
6. Marshal Pétain's Fall from Grace
7. Flirting with Danger - The Fantasy of Mata Hari
8. Reading the Enemy's Mind - Espionage in World War I
9. Chasing the Phantom - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
10. Dreaming of Africa - The Life of Frederick Selous
11. At Home and Abroad - The Two Faces of Jan Smuts
12. Albert Schweitzer - Reverence for Life
13. Congo - A Curse of Riches
14. Waging Peace - The Rise of Pacifism
15. War in the Third Dimension - Aerial Warfare in World War I
16. Blood Red - The Life and Death of Manfred von Richthofen
17. Flying High for France - The Lafayette Escadrille
18. Anthony Fokker - The Flying Dutchman
19. Karl - The Last Habsburg Emperor
20. The Russian Revolution - All Power to the Soviets!
21. V. I. Lenin - History Will Not Forgive Us
22. Impresario - Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
23. Ballet - The Art of Dance
24. Franz Kafka's Dark Truth
25. Lines in the Sand - The Middle East and the Great War
26. Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
27. Historical Lecture: War and Revolution
Season 3
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1. Unhealed Wounds - The Life of Ernest Hemingway
2. The French Foreign Legion - The World's Most Legendary Fighting Force
3. The Secret Life of Edith Wharton
4. Lowell Thomas - American Storyteller
5. For the People, Despite the People - The Atatürk Revolution
6. The Greedy Heart of Halide Edib
7. The Ottoman Empire - A World of Difference
8. Dracula - Fact and Fiction
9. Bronislaw Malinowski - God Professor
10. Anthropology - Looking at the Human Condition
11. New Guinea - Paradise in Peril
12. The Best Intentions - The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
13. Woodrow Wilson - American Idealist
14. Gertrude Bell - Iraq's Uncrowned Queen
15. Ho Chi Minh - The Price of Freedom
16. Paul Robeson - Scandalize My Name
17. Robert Goddard - Mr. Rocket Science
18. Jazz - Rhythms of Freedom
19. Al "Scarface" Capone - The Original Gangster
20. Prohibition - America on the Rocks
21. On the Trail of Eliot Ness
22. Louis Armstrong - Ambassador of Jazz
23. Ben Hecht - Shakespeare of Hollywood
24. Hellfighters - Harlem's Heroes of World War I
25. Tin Pan Alley - Soundtrack of America
26. Wonderful Nonsense - The Algonquin Round Table
27. Broadway - America Center Stage
28. Erich von Stroheim - The Profligate Genius
29. The Rise of the Moguls - The Men Who Built Hollywood
30. Irving Thalberg - Hollywood's Boy Wonder
31. The World of John Ford
32. Historical Lecture: New Gods for Old