America in Color - Season 3 - Eps 3: Alaska
At the dawn of the 20th century, most Americans think of Alaska as an icy unpopulated wilderness, but one event will change everything: the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896. Through remastered and colorized news footage and home movies, witness Alaska's evolution from a frozen wasteland at the edge of the world to the 49th state to join the Union. From boomtowns to volcanic blasts to Japanese invasions, this is the story of America's last frontier as you have never seen it before.
About America in Color
Title: America in Color
First Air Date: 2017-07-02
Last Air Date: 2019-12-15
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.1/10 (from 7 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 3
Total Episodes: 17
Network: Smithsonian Channel
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
From the 1920s through the 1960s, America transformed from a young country on the rise into a global superpower. Using digital colorization technology, we present these formative decades as few have seen them, revisiting 50 vibrant years of good times and great despair, technological triumphs and natural disasters, and global villains and national heroes.
Cast
Liev Schreiber
Self - Narrator (voice)
