A ship captain instructs his crew to bring the ship to full speed. This clip is a great view of the integration of machinery and manpower in a steamship.

The juxtaposition of fantastical and escapist television programs is compared with the rise of television journalism, which, during the sixties, covered wide-ranging controversial and politicized events as they happened.

In this scene, the native Powhatan fight the Jamestown settlers. In reality, the Anglo-Powhatan Wars were fought between these parties for a number of years. The clip also illustrates how the European settlers denigrated the Native Americans' beliefs.

A reenactment of the Battle of Stalingrad.

This scene shows the similarities between the concept of manifest destiny in the United States and expansion in Rome. The Americans state that manifest destiny "can't be stopped," explaining one of the core beliefs of the ideal: that the United States has an irresistible destiny to expand across North America.