From revolution to superpower, discover the people and moments that shaped America.
Political protest escalates into violence. War gives 13 colonies a common cause.
Cassius Clay rises from boastful amateur boxer to the Olympics.
Lucy Worsley investigates the explosive 18th-century break-up between Britain and America.
Robert Hughes explores how America sought architectural inspiration from Greece and Rome.
Exploring the US's complicated relationship with Iraq.
Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at portraits of the Puritan settlers in Massachusetts.
In 1972, a break-in at the Democratic Party's headquarters sparks the Watergate scandal.
Michael Palin follows in Ernest Hemingway's footsteps across Europe, Africa and America.
A pioneering class of astronauts is recruited by NASA to fly aboard its new space shuttle.
How Warhol both glorified and critiqued American culture.
John Freeman interviews civil rights leader Martin Luther King. First broadcast in 1961.
Actor David Harewood travels across America to discover the stories behind his heroes.
Spy-charged paranoia sees hostile superpowers heading to the brink of nuclear war.
Amol Rajan interviews Watergate journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Charles Moore explores the close relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.