The Great Adventure - Season 1

Episodes

Season 1Episode 160 min

The Hunley

During the Civil War, an engineer working for the Confederacy develops a primitive submarine that can evade the Union ships blockading Southern ports.

The Death of Sitting Bull

Season 1Episode 260 min

The Death of Sitting Bull

The first of a two part episode, the US Government believes that Sitting Bull has joined the Ghost Dancers, a Sioux religious movement the government believes will lead to another Indian War, and take action that ends in a double tragedy.

The Massacre at Wounded Knee

Season 1Episode 360 min

The Massacre at Wounded Knee

The second of a two part episode. Days after Sitting Bull's death, the US Army's bungled attempt to disarm a party of Sioux results in the unnecessary deaths of over 300 men, women and children.

Six Wagons to the Sea

Season 1Episode 460 min

Six Wagons to the Sea

The attempt in 1894 by farmers from California's Central Valley to get their produce to market by wagon despite attempts by the Southern Pacific Railroad to foil their efforts and preserve their monopoly of transporting produce.

Season 1Episode 560 min

The Secret

American Continental soldier turns spy against the British and gives all for a concept called Democracy.

Season 1Episode 660 min

Go Down Moses

Ruby Dee plays the escaped slave Harriet Tubman and her attempts to rescue enslaved family members and friends through the pre-Civil War Underground Railroad.

The Great Diamond Mountain

Season 1Episode 760 min

The Great Diamond Mountain

In this humorous episode, two con men perpetrate the Diamond Hoax of 1872 in an attempt to swindle San Francisco banker William Ralston, played by Barry Sullivan.

The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis

Season 1Episode 860 min

The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis

The Confederate Government of Jefferson Davis makes a futile attempt to escape Richmond and capture by the Union Army.

The Outlaw and the Nun

Season 1Episode 960 min

The Outlaw and the Nun

A nun comes to a town to teach school and finds that education is so undervalued by the community that she has only two pupils. She sets out to change that.

The Man Who Stole New York City

Season 1Episode 1060 min

The Man Who Stole New York City

The rise and fall of Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall political machine in 1860s New York City.

Season 1Episode 1160 min

A Boy at War

The future seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is a 13 year old boy soldier struggling to survive the American Revolution.

Wild Bill Hickok – the Legend and the Man

Season 1Episode 1260 min

Wild Bill Hickok – the Legend and the Man

Down on his luck and in decline, Wild Bill Hickok arrives at the end of his trail in Deadwood in 1876.

The Colonel from Connecticut

Season 1Episode 1360 min

The Colonel from Connecticut

The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S.

Teeth of the Lion

Season 1Episode 1460 min

Teeth of the Lion

Season 1Episode 1560 min

Rodger Young

James MacArthur plays Rodger Young. The story of a young man that enlists in the Army despite having poor eyesight and hearing and ends up earning the Medal of Honor for his deeds fighting the Japanese during WWII.

The Testing of Sam Houston

Season 1Episode 1660 min

The Testing of Sam Houston

In 1817, Andrew Jackson appoints a young Sam Houston to oversee the forced relocation of the Cherokee from Tennessee. He soon clashes with both Jackson and the US Government over his fair and humane treatment of the Cherokee.

The Special Courage of Captain Pratt

Season 1Episode 1760 min

The Special Courage of Captain Pratt

Richard Pratt's now controversial efforts to assimilate Native Americans into "white" society by education and rejection of tribal traditions. He advocated for Native Americans and founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

The Night Raiders

Season 1Episode 1860 min

The Night Raiders

A recounting of the events leading to John Brown's disastrous raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.

Season 1Episode 1960 min

Plague

Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse attempts to convince the US Government and the public of the value of vaccinations against small pox. One of his first patients - the President of the United States Thomas Jefferson.

Season 1Episode 2060 min

The Pathfinder

The meeting of two great American Legends in 1846 California - Colonel John C. Fremont and John Sutter - on the eve of war with Mexico.

The President Vanishes

Season 1Episode 2160 min

The President Vanishes

In 1893 President Grover Cleveland embarks on a mysterious voyage into Long Island Sound aboard a friend's yacht pursued by a suspicious reporter. It was twenty four years later that it was revealed that he had surgery to remove a tumor.

The Henry Bergh Story

Season 1Episode 2260 min

The Henry Bergh Story

A man crusades for better treatment of animals and forms the ASPCA in 1866. He later crusades for better treatment of children.

Kentucky's Bloody Ground

Season 1Episode 2360 min

Kentucky's Bloody Ground

The first of a two part episode recalling Daniel Boone's attempt to settle Kentucky and the events leading to the siege of Boonesborough by the Shawnee in 1778.

The Siege of Boonesborough

Season 1Episode 2460 min

The Siege of Boonesborough

This two part episode recounts the story of Daniel Boone and the 1778 Siege of Boonesborough by the Shawnee.

Season 1Episode 2560 min

Escape

The true Civil War story of an escape by Union POWs from the Confederate Libby Prison in 1864. The POWs tunneled under the walls and into an adjoining building which gave them access to the street. While some were recaptured, a few got away, including Colonel Streight [Michael Constantine] who had organized the escape.

The Pirate and the Patriot

Season 1Episode 2660 min

The Pirate and the Patriot

Thirty four years later, General Andrew Jackson, commanding the US Army defending New Orleans, is about to get revenge for his treatment by the British during the American Revolution with a little help from a local buccaneer.

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