Season 4 Episodes
1. The Triumph of Louis Braille (May 25, 1847)
Louis Braille develops a system for the blind to read and write, bringing them out of the shadows of society.
2. The Last Day of an English Queen
3. The Boston Massacre
4. The Rescue of the American Prisoners from Santo Tomas
5. Moscow Today
6. The Secret Message That Plunged America Into World War I (March 1, 1917)
A dramatization of America's entry into World War I.
7. Grant and Lee at Appomattox
8. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
9. The Hoax of Cardiff Giant (February 2, 1870)
Reporters are stationed at the home of poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes; the Cardiff N.Y. farm of William Newell, where the alleged human fossil was discovered; and at the library of Cornell University's president, Andrew D. White. Holmes and a reporter named Bud Wilson sense that the Cardiff giant is not authentic.
10. Bannister Wins the Mile Run
11. Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin
12. Spindletop: The First Great Texas Oil Strike
13. The Chicago Fire
14. Pierre and Marie Curie Discover Radium
15. Washington Crosses the Delaware (December 25, 1776)
As snow and sleet threaten to freeze the Delaware River, General Washington attempts a crossing to surprise Hessian troops at Trenton, N.J.
16. Benedict Arnold's Plot Against West Point
17. The Heroism of Clara Barton
At the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, later labeled as "the bloodiest day of the Civil War," we witness the heroism of Clara Barton, who defies the danger of battle to administer first aid to the men.
18. V-J Day
19. Dr. Pinel Unchains the Insane
20. The Great Comstock Silver Strike (October 29, 1873)
Walter Cronkite hosts a TV recreation of the Great Comstock Silver Strike using many well known western TV character actors.
