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Heaven and Earth

Episode number: 1

Overview: "Lindbergh's Journey": Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic / "First Step": Neil Armstrong steps on the moon; space exploration.

Ultimate Power

Episode number: 2

Overview: "Evil Rising": Hitler rises to power / "The Race": the race to build the atomic bomb.

No Man's Land

Episode number: 3

Overview: "The Great War": World War I / "The Fall": the Vietnam War.

Memphis Dreams

Episode number: 4

Overview: "Innocence in Rebellion": Elvis Presley helps change American culture / "Searching for the Promised Land": Martin Luther King Jr. marches for civil rights.

Coming Apart

Episode number: 5

Overview: "Nothing to Fear": Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 inauguration; banks fail; internment camps; farm foreclosures / "Picture This": the birth of Hollywood; film industry and the Cold War.

The Evolution of Revolution

Episode number: 6

Overview: "Live from Tehran": Iran hostage crisis / "Facing the New Millennium": 20th-century thinkers discuss the new millennium.