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Summary 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America is comprised of ten films, each created by a different documentary filmmaker. The series spotlights ten historic events that changed the landscape of America.

  • History
  • Apr 9, 2006
  • History
  • Apr 9, 2006
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
Season 1
Season Premiere: Apr 9, 2006
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Summary 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America is comprised of ten films, each created by a different documentary filmmaker. The series spotlights ten historic events that changed the landscape of America.

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Episode 1 • Apr 9, 2006 • 1 h
Antietam
Episode 2 • Apr 9, 2006 • 1 h
Massacre at Mystic
Episode 3 • Apr 10, 2006 • 1 h
Einstein's Letter
A personal written appeal signed by Albert Einstein to the US President sets the stage for the development of nuclear weapons.
Episode 4 • Apr 10, 2006 • 1 h
Murder at the Fair: The Assassination of President McKinley
The assassination of President William McKinley enables the rise of reformer Theodore Roosevelt to the Presidency.
Episode 5 • Apr 11, 2006 • 1 h
When America Was Rocked
The appearance of Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show legitimizes rock and roll and youth culture which changes US culture.
Episode 6 • Apr 11, 2006 • 1 h
Gold Rush
Episode 7 • Apr 12, 2006 • 1 h
Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul
The trial of a teacher charged with teaching evolution in a public school escalates the conflict of religious faith and freedom of thought in America
Episode 8 • Apr 12, 2006 • 1 h
The Homestead Strike
At the height of the Gilded Age, steel workers fight for their rights against the oppressive working conditions of Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel, resulting in the Homestead Strike of 1892.
Episode 9 • Apr 13, 2006 • 1 h
Freedom Summer
The murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement.
Episode 10 • Apr 13, 2006 • 1 h
Shays' Rebellion: America's First Civil War
An armed uprising shortly after the American Revolutionary War sparks the drafting of the Constitution of the United States of America

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