← America: A Personal History of the United States · Season 1

The Huddled Masses

S1 · E10 · 14 Jan 1973 · 50 min

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Three quarters of the population of the United States who call themselves "the American people" are descendants of immigrants from Asia, Africa and, most of all, from Europe. What impact did the flood of immigrants to the US have at the beginning of the 20th century - Alistair Cooke takes an in-depth look.