Keith David

Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.

Looks at the Jazz Age, which began in 1917 and flourished until the mid-1920s, predominately in Chicago and New York.

Jazz is born in the African-American community of New Orleans but it grows up with the influence of ragtime, band music, spirituals, and the blues.

In the mid-1930s, white musicians start to make important advances in jazz, even conducting black orchestras.

It's the Roaring Twenties and jazz is flourishing everywhere in America.

During World War II, swing becomes a symbol of democracy and freedom and on the home front, established musicians make way for a new musical style, bebop.

Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.