Alistair Cookes America (13 part series)(1972).txt
Alistair Cookes America
13 x 50mins
First transmitted in 1972, 'Alistair Cooke's America' was a series of thirteen, fifty-minute films in colour, written and narrated by Alistair Cooke. He traced the history of the USA from the early voyages of discovery to the present. Four-disc set.
ALISTAIR COOKES AMERICA - BOX SET (1972) - DVD
British native, but long-term American resident Alistair Cooke hosted this long-running documentary on the development of the United States. Starting through the colonial periods, through the revolutionary war and pioneer expansionist eras, into the global conflicts and economic domination of the twentieth century, and ending with the social upheavals and counter-culture revolutions of the 1960's and 70's.
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