Time Traveling with Brian Unger

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History Documentary hosted by Brian Unger, published by Travel Channel UK in 2015 - English narration

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Time Traveling with Brian Unger Brian Unger goes where ordinary travellers can't, using eye-popping CGI to visually travel back in time and tell stories you won't find in guidebooks. Brian serves as the ultimate tour guide, taking locals to iconic landmarks and revealing histories we never knew.

[edit] SF's Golden Gateway & NY's Tallest Five and Dime

Brian revisits the Great Depression in San Francisco, where an amazing feat of engineering resulted in the Golden Gate Bridge. Afterward, he heads to New York City to see how the first building to scrape the sky has transformed from 1913 to today.

[edit] Cowboys, Cops, Corrals & Divorce Vegas Style

Brian travels back to the Wild West in Tombstone, AZ, to see where the infamous OK Corral gunfight really took place. Then, he hits the streets of 1940s Las Vegas to see “divorce ranches” and how celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe secretly got divorced.

[edit] Monuments Man and Tramping through Hollywood

Brian travels back in time to 1884 in Washington, DC, to see how a swamp turned into the National Mall and to learn the story behind the US Capitol’s construction. Then, he takes locals tramping through Hollywood, CA, in search of the hidden filming locations and studios of Charlie Chaplin.

[edit] Liberty Bell Escape and Hidden Canyon Treasures

Brian Unger takes locals on an adventure to uncover the histories of 2 dramatically different landscapes. First, he shows them the bootlegged journey of the Liberty Bell through Pennsylvania; then, he travels to Arizona to explore the stories of the Grand Canyon’s past.

[edit] Lincolns Killer on the Run

Brian takes locals back to Washington, DC, at the end of the Civil War to follow the escape route of President Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. They hide in a pine thicket, row across the Potomac River, and visit a special group of tennis courts.

[edit] Pocahontas & Death Valley Scotty

Brian and his guests “travel” to 1607 in Jamestown, VA, where the first English settlement was built and Pocahontas was married. Brian then heads to Death Valley, CA, to see a scam artist and learn why many flocked to the unforgiving climate in the late 1900s.

[edit] Rockets Red Glare & Rockin' LA Hotels

Brian takes his guests to Baltimore to “witness” the most famous battle during the War of 1812 and to visit the birthplace of our national anthem. Next, he enters Hollywood and rock 'n' roll history in the old hotels of Los Angeles.

[edit] Eye of the Storm, Fountain of Youth

Brian and his “time travellers” visit Galveston, TX, to learn about the deadliest hurricane in US history. The group then travels to America's oldest city, St. Augustine, FL, to get a taste of life in the 1500s and search for the Fountain of Youth.

[edit] AZ Diamondbacks & Hohokam

Time periods collide as Brian and locals visit the Arizona Diamondbacks’ spring-training facility, where Major League Baseball meets an ancient Native American game. Brian throws the first pitch and is joined by Luis Gonzalez and Eric Byrnes.

[edit] Breaking Barriers & Sherman's March to the Sea

Brian and his guests visit the Mojave Desert and learn who had "the Right Stuff" at Edwards Air Force Base in the 1940s. Then, they travel to Atlanta to revisit the end of the Civil War, when Gen. William Sherman made his destructive "March to the Sea."

[edit] Rocket Men

Brian and his guests travel back to the 1960s and ’70s to see where the Space Race was won, Cape Canaveral, FL. They visit NASA's original mission control, the launch control center and the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building), where rockets are still put together.

[edit] Bonnie & Clyde & All that Jazz in NOLA

Brian and his guests follow the trail of America's most infamous and villainous couple, Bonnie and Clyde. After that, they head to New Orleans to witness the birth of what many say is an American art form, jazz, on a riverboat and at a famous country society hall.

[edit] Riding Coney Island HDTV x264

Brian takes locals back to the late 1800s to see Coney Island, NY, in all its original glory. Then, he heads west to revisit the Spanish American War and explore the birthplace of San Francisco, the former military base known as the Presidio.

[edit] Mob Scene in Miami

Brian Unger researches the life that Al Capone led in Miami after leaving his shady Chicago past behind. He relives Capone's trial and takes an exclusive tour of his mansion. Then, he gets the inside scoop from Scarface's niece.

[edit] Key West Defense & Nola Pirate

Brian and locals explore what Key West was like in the heart-stopping days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Then, he heads to New Orleans to relive the swashbuckling story of notorious pirate Jean Lafitte in the early 1800s.

[edit] Billy the Kid & Atomic History

Brian and locals take New Mexico by storm, riding in the hoofprints of Wild West legend Billy the Kid. Then they visit the Manhattan Projects top-secret military site, where scientists built and tested the first atomic bomb.

[edit] Kentucky Horses and Bourbon

Brian and locals unearth two Kentucky traditions, horse racing and bourbon. They veer off the Bourbon Trail to the birthplace of the American beverage, and then gallop back in time to bluegrass horse country for a visit with Secretariat.

[edit] Paul Revere & the Anarchists in Boston

Brian travels to Boston to bust the myth of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride and play detective on the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s. The Italian anarchists were charged for the killing of two men.