"A riveting adventure of how America was invented, America: the story of the US focuses on the people, ideas and events that built the nation, covering 400 years of American history in the most extensive and in-depth television series ever produced by the History Channel. From the rigors of linking the continent by wagon trails to the transcontinental railway, the engineering of steel-structured buildings, to landing on the moon, this epic 12-part series is a grand cinematic vision of how the country was built"--Container.