American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley TV Listings

American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley TV listings this week

American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley is scheduled to air at these times (may include spoilers):

• Fri 8

  7:10 am ends 8:00 am

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  The American Revolution — American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

  Season 1 · Episode 1

  Lucy explores how American history has been mythologised and manipulated by generations of politicians, writers and protesters. She begins by examining the American Revolution - a David-and-Goliath battle of men with high ideals taking on the might of the British Empire. But how much of America's founding story is based on fact?

  More details for American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley, Fri 8, 7:10 am
• Sat 9

  6:10 am ends 7:10 am

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  The American Civil War — American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

  Season 1 · Episode 2

  Lucy Worsley debunks the myths behind the American Civil War, revealing how its history has been retold over the years to promote freedom and equality but also hatred and division. She reveals how Abraham Lincoln's personal views, and the behaviour of his troops towards African Americans, were not as noble as they appeared. She also learns how history was rewritten in a bid to downplay the evils of slavery, and how a 1905 blockbuster film about the Civil War relaunched the Ku Klux Klan with terrifying results

  More details for American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley, Sat 9, 6:10 am
• Sat 9

  7:10 am ends 8:00 am

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  Supremacy — American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

  Season 1 · Episode 3

  The historian reveals the myths and deceptions told following the United States' emergence as a superpower after the Second World War. The 1950s and early 1960s in America is remembered as a golden era of abundance, harmony and the American dream made real. Lucy Worsley reveals that to have been a carefully constructed illusion and that the era of America's supremacy was a time of government deception, racial conflict and fears of nuclear annihilation

  More details for American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley, Sat 9, 7:10 am