America in Colour is a Documentary programme.

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America in Colour: Made in the USA

Series 3, episode 4

At the turn of the 20th century, 29 million Americans were working and 40 per cent were farmers. Over the decades, factories sprung up, the world wars sped up technological change and, by the 1950s, the US had the highest wages and consumer power in the world. This documentary uses restored archive footage to tell the story of the men and women who built the American Dream