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With the 2020 election on the horizon, Thomas Seltzer embarks on a journey in a divided country to find out: What happened to the American dream?
Thomas Seltzer embarks on a journey through his first homeland to find out what happened to the American dream. First stop: his childhood home in Wisconsin.
Unemployment, poverty and hopelessness in the American coal belt cause men to die earlier than for generations. Yet there is hope.
The battle over who can call themselves Americans today is more ruthless than ever and the fronts are steep, both in the city streets, in the countryside and along the border.
Once upon a time, the Midwest not only prospered, it fed the whole world. Today the American heartland still has a pulse thanks to illegal stimuli and illegal immigrants.
The United States is facing a choice of fate this election. Fear, division and mistrust characterize the country and the people who live there. How did they get there?
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"Back Pack Series" (English: Back Pack Series) is a travel program series filmed and produced by TVB. There are currently four series in the program series, namely "Backpack America", "Backpack Utopia", "Backpacking Morocco" and "The North Of South America", hosted by Chris Leung Yin Chung from the perspective of backpackers to travel around the world .
Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - “The National Parks: America's Best Idea” is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.
The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away. It impacted millions from Vermont’s Green Mountains to the swamps of South Carolina, from Indian Country to the Iberian Peninsula. In defeating the British Empire and giving birth to a new nation, the American Revolution turned the world upside-down. Thirteen colonies on the Atlantic Coast united in rebellion, won their independence, and established a republic that still endures. The American Revolution will present the story of the men and women of the Revolutionary generation, their humanity in victory and defeat, and the crisis that they lived through.
