America: A Personal History of the United States is a British 13-part documentary television series about the United States and its history, commissioned by the BBC and made in partnership with Time-Life Films. It was written and presented by Alistair Cooke, and first broadcast in both the United Kingdom and the United States in 1972. [1]

America: With Alistair Cooke. Alistair Cooke's Emmy-winning history of the U.S. from Colonial days to the 1970s, filmed on location, offers a panoramic yet personal look at the birth and growth of America. The series was also known as 'Alistair Cooke's America.'

America is a prolific documentary series that focuses on the history of the United States of America. The series host, Alistair Cooke, was foreign correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, based in New York, from 1947 until 1972.

Producer, Michael Gill; writer and narrator, Alistair Cooke Explains how the white man got to North America and what he was seeking. Describes the arrival of the Spanish, the French, and the British in North America

1 / 13 Alistair Cooke recounts his personal experiences of time spent in America. (1972)

Alistair Cooke looks at the first impressions he had of America when he first arrived in 1932. This edition looks at the French and Spanish explorers who fist came to America and retraces the epic journeys of Coronado in 1540.

[13] Alistair Cooke's America: THE MORE ABUNDANT LIFE (final episode) Alistair Cooke concludes his personal examination of the history and character of America with a look at contemporary America

Cooke died in March 2004, just a month after his last-ever letter from America. This episode covers the entire country, from Yale to New Orleans to the west coast, as Cooke recounts his first journey there. There's a stop-off at the Mayo Clinic on the way.

In this edition of America, Alistair Cooke discusses the coming together of the 13 independent colonies to form a new United States of America and how the men now known as the "Founding Fathers" went about inventing a nation.

First transmitted in 1972, Alistair Cooke's America was a series of thirteen, fifty-minute films in colour, written and narrated by Alistair Cooke. The programmes trace the history of the United States from the early voyages of discovery to the present.