The Great Adventure

1. E1. The Hunley

   Sep 27, 1963

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

2. E2. The Death of Sitting Bull

   Oct 4, 1963

   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.

3. E3. The Massacre at Wounded Knee

   Oct 11, 1963

   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.

4. E4. Six Wagons to the Sea

   Oct 18, 1963

   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.

5. E5. The Story of Nathan Hale

   Oct 25, 1963

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

6. E6. Go Down, Moses

   Nov 1, 1963

   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.

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