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The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure

10.0 IMDb tt0056761 1963 Drama

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.

Episodes 26

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The Hunley During the Civil War, an engineer working for the Confederacy develops a primitive submarine that can evade the…
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The Death of Sitting Bull The first of a two part episode, the US Government believes that Sitting Bull has joined the Ghost…
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The Massacre at Wounded Knee The second of a two part episode. Days after Sitting Bull's death, the US Army's bungled attempt to…
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Six Wagons to the Sea The attempt in 1894 by farmers from California's Central Valley to get their produce to market by wagon…
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The Story of Nathan Hale American Continental soldier turns spy against the British and gives all for a concept called Democracy.
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Go Down, Moses Ruby Dee plays the escaped slave Harriet Tubman and her attempts to rescue enslaved family members and friends…
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The Great Diamond Mountain In this humorous episode, two con men perpetrate the Diamond Hoax of 1872 in an attempt to swindle…
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The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis The Confederate Government of Jefferson Davis makes a futile attempt to escape Richmond and capture by the Union…
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The Outlaw and the Nun A nun comes to a town to teach school and finds that education is so undervalued by the…
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The Man Who Stole New York City The rise and fall of Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall political machine in 1860s New York City.
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A Boy at War The future seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is a 13 year old boy soldier struggling…
12
Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man Down on his luck and in decline, Wild Bill Hickok arrives at the end of his trail in…
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The Colonel from Connecticut The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S.
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Teeth of the Lion
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Rodger Young James MacArthur plays Rodger Young. The story of a young man that enlists in the Army despite having…
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The Testing of Sam Houston In 1817, Andrew Jackson appoints a young Sam Houston to oversee the forced relocation of the Cherokee from…
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The Special Courage of Captain Pratt Richard Pratt's now controversial efforts to assimilate Native Americans into "white" society by education and rejection of tribal…
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The Night Raiders A recounting of the events leading to John Brown's disastrous raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.
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Plague Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse attempts to convince the US Government and the public of the value of vaccinations against…
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The Pathfinder The meeting of two great American Legends in 1846 California - Colonel John C. Fremont and John Sutter…
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The President Vanishes In 1893 President Grover Cleveland embarks on a mysterious voyage into Long Island Sound aboard a friend's yacht…
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The Henry Bergh Story A man crusades for better treatment of animals and forms the ASPCA in 1866. He later crusades for…
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Kentucky's Bloody Ground The first of a two part episode recalling Daniel Boone's attempt to settle Kentucky and the events leading…
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The Siege of Boonesborough This two part episode recounts the story of Daniel Boone and the 1778 Siege of Boonesborough by the…
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Escape The true Civil War story of an escape by Union POWs from the Confederate Libby Prison in 1864.…
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The Pirate and the Patriot Thirty four years later, General Andrew Jackson, commanding the US Army defending New Orleans, is about to get…