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Building the Metropolis

Season 2 Episode 3
25:32
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Dream Factory

Season 2 Episode 4
23:50
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Coded Geographies

Season 2 Episode 5
25:06
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Pacific Rim

Season 2 Episode 6
26:50
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Special: Descanso Gardens

Season 2 Episode 7
51:47
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Yosemite

Season 3 Episode 1
26:40
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Desert Fantasy

Season 3 Episode 2
26:40
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Beach Culture

Season 3 Episode 3
26:39
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Ghost Towns

Season 3 Episode 4
26:40
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Venice

Season 3 Episode 5
26:40
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Fantasyland

Season 3 Episode 6
26:40
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Griffith Park - The Untold History

Season 4 Episode 1
26:48
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Wild West

Season 2 Episode 2

Long before Hollywood imagined the Wild West, Los Angeles was a real frontier town of gunslingers, lynch mobs, and smoke-belching locomotives. This episode examines L.A.'s efforts to reckon with its violent past by examining hanging trees, remnants of vigilant justice; the massacre of eighteen Chinese immigrants that took place in 1871 near what is now Olvera Street; and railroad promotional campaigns that painted a picture of Los Angeles as a verdant paradise.

Lesson Plan: What were the causes of the anti-Chinese massacre?