This two part series looks at the most impressive manmade structures in the USA. Behind each of them is a big story of an engineer's vision, a daring plan, of problems overcome or disasters that befell. Eye-popping aerial photography is allied to state-of-the art computer graphics to show these icons of architecture rise up girder by girder, block by block. The Empire State Building is actually rebuilt floor by floor, and the Kennedy Space Center rises from an alligator-infested swamp, while giant faces are carved out of the bare mountain at Mt Rushmore. The first programme, Thinking Big , takes the viewer on a journey of through the buildings that the new nation needed to become an industrial giant, and to announce its own increasing power to the world - including the Brooklyn Bridge, the Hoover Dam and the Empire State Building.

Around the world, and throughout time, people have built mythical and mysterious structures, from Tikal in Guatemala, the Holy Sepulchre in Israel, Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Sphinx in Egypt, Notre Dame de Paris, and the Château de Chambord. In the third season of Ancient Superstructures, we delve into the more legendary ancient structures to decipher their secrets. These monuments impress with their immense size and remarkable architecture. How and why were they built, what makes them significant, and how have they survived the centuries ? Beyond the superficial appearance, what are the mysteries that surround them ? In aerial and satellite images, using Lidar to reveal the terrain on which they are built, we explore each structure, before moving in closer to film on a microscopic scale, to understand the materials used and the challenges of soil, ageing, and preservation. Season 3: 1. Tikal (Guatemala) 2. Saint Sepulcre (Israel) 3. Chitchen Itza (Mexique) 4. Notre Dame (France) 5. Sphinx (Egypt) 6. Chambord Castle (France) Produced by Pernel Média in association with RMC Découverte, Histoire and ZDF Studios

Geoff Edgers searches the country for the weird, wonderful and unexpected things people do to entertain themselves - and others.

The adventures of various European explorers who were key figures in the colonization of the Americas.

PORTRAIT OF AMERICA was a five-year, $20 million investment originated by Ted Turner, who believed original programming was the key to the growth of cable television. He also created CNN for the same reason. POA consisted of 55 one-hour original documentaries about every state and territory in the USA (with two episodes about California, one about New York City, one about Washington DC, and one about island territories) -- all shot on film by leading documentary filmmakers, with original music scores, all hosted and narrated by Hal Holbrook (who won a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the “Alaska“ episode), and all aired in prime time on TBS, Turner's “SuperStation.“. The series also won a Peabody Award and several Cable ACE Awards.

From acclaimed director Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time", comes this touching and inspirational story about loyalty, friendship, and courage. New man in town Kenny Williams has just accepted a position as an English professor at the Three Nations Reservation in Utah. Finding it hard to fit in with the tight-knit Native American community, he decides to take on the challenge of coaching the high school girls' basketball team.

"House of America" is a 1997 film directed by Marc Evans. The film, set in a depressed Welsh mining town, centres on a dysfunctional family unit of brothers Boyo and Sid, their sister Gwenny and their controlling mother. The film tackles issues such as Welsh identity, its need for indigenous heroes and the nation's perceived inferiority complex.

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin headed up a secret film unit that sought to redefine America in the eyes of the world during the darkest days of World War II. The filmmakers created powerful short documentaries that showed America's strength not through images of tanks, but in portraits of farmers, school children and window washers. The "Projections of America" films were brilliant, moving portraits of America that were unlike any films ever made before, but seventy years later they are forgotten, hidden away in government archives.

Of Black America was a series of seven one-hour documentaries presented by CBS News in the summer of 1968, at the end of the Civil Rights Movement and during a time of racial unrest (Martin Luther King had been assassinated that spring and riots in many cities had followed). The groundbreaking[1] series explored various aspects of the history and current state of African-American community.

Topic Studios和Playground正在将《美利坚合众国》（States of America）开发成一部时长一小时的反乌托邦电视剧，该剧由曾担任中情局特工、后成为畅销书作家和漫画编剧的汤姆·金（Tom King）创作。《美利坚合众国》的故事背景设定在美国深度分裂时期，该国因一场无端的战争被迫遭受外国占领，以换取暂时的和平。该剧融合了……