American Experience
Season 2 Episode 10 - Journey to America
A tribute to the twelve million people who emigrated to the U.S. between 1890 and 1920. A recapturing of the journey through Europe to seaport towns, to the arrival in New York Harbor, and into the early months of settlement from urban ghettos out into the prairies. Letters, diaries and oral interviews are used to depict one of the largest single human migrations in history.
Episodes in Season 2
The Great Air Race of 1924
55 min
Demon Rum
55 min
A Family Gathering
55 min
The Great War: 1918
55 min
Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil
55 min
Forever Baseball
55 min
Mr. Sears' Catalogue
55 min
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
55 min
Adam Clayton Powell
55 min
Journey to America
55 min
Ballad of a Mountain Man
55 min
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
55 min
Orphans of the Storm
55 min
Forbidden City, USA
55 min
Battle for Wilderness
55 min
Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad
55 min