Born and nurtured in war, America grew in strength and power and now, in the 21st century, it is the foremost military power in the world. George Kennedy takes us on this three hundred-year saga of United States wars.

DVD extras: downlowable historical overview, maps and timelines; Spanish subtitled, English subtitled for the hearing impaired.

Disc 1. Part 1: Wars for the continent: 1702-1713 Queen Anne's War, 1739 War of Jenkins Ear begins, 1754-1763 French and Indian War, 1763 Pontiac's war, 1770 Boston Massacre. Part 2. The Revolutionary war: 1775 The Battle of Lexingtona nd Concord; George Washington takes command of the Continerntal Army, 1776 Washington crosses the Delaware, 1777 Second Battle of Saratoga; John Paul Jones sets sail; The Winter at Valley Forge, 1778 George Rogers Clark captures Kasaskia, 1781 Siege of Yorktown. Disc 2. Part 3: Manifest Destiny wars: 1797 U.S.S. Constitution is launched, 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, 1814 Washington, D.C. is capture and burned by the British; The Star Spangled Banner is written, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, 1832 Massacre at Bad Axe River ends Black Hawk War, 1836 Alamo falls. Part 4: The Civil war: 1846 United States declares war on Mexico, 1861 Eleven states comprise the Confederacy, 1862 Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address; the fall of Vicksburg, 1865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox. Disc 3. Part 5: The Imperial wars: 1750 Native American horse cultures dominate the Great Plains, 1876 Battle at the Little Big Horn, 1890 Battle at Wounded Knee, 1898 Sinking of the Maine, 1914-1917 America prepares for World War I, 1917 America enters World War I. Part 6: The Global wars: 1941 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, 1944 D-Day "Operation Overlord", 1945 America drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, 1950 President Truman sends American troops to the aid of South Korea, 1950-1953 The Korean War. Disc 4. Part 6: The Cold War: 1952 The Marshall Plan wins the battle for Western Europe, 1954 John Foster Dulles becomes Eisenhower's Cold War warrior, 1962 Cuban Missle crisis, 1964 Vietnam war: COngress passes Guild of Tonkin Resolution, 1968 Vietnam War: the Tet Offensive. Part 8: The Police wars: 1973 Vietnam War: cease-fire ends wawr, 1983 The Grenada Conflict, 1990 The Gulf war, 1991 End of the Cold war, 2003 Gulf War II.