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Narrator: We rise above nature

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tame the frontier's of our planet

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now, we harness the force of the universe

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claiming powers that could destroy us

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but, still we fight for freedom

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truth, new beginings

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as mankind turns towards the frontier's of the future

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amidst the chaos of a unforgiving planet

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most species will fail

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but for one all the pieces

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will fall into place

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and a set of keys will unlock a path

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for mankind to triumph

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This is our story

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the story of all of us

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Today over 7 billion humans on planet earth

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in just four generations our Population

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has grown by 5 billion

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faster in the first 50 years of the 20th century

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than the previous 50 thousand

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and as mankind expands

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in a ever more crowded world

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we face the ultimate challange

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abusing the power of the planet

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to propel us into the future

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The Midwest, 1935

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giant dust storm's

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ravage American farm land

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the worst drought in U.S. history

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two and half million people

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abandoned the great plains

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families driven off their farms

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heading in hope for California

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Russell: Life in rural America was

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absolutely horrendous

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dust storms could happen

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that could obliterate everything

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it was nearly impossible to grow food

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in that soil

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Narrator: One man plans to revive

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this barren land

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Rosewell Garst

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born and breed farmer

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instinctive entrepreneur

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he sells his cattle

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mortgages his farm

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and bet's everything on a wonder

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crop that will become a key

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to mankind's future

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hybrid corn

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its cross breed

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to resist drought and disease

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so it can still grow

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in the scorched earth of the Midwest

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he drives two thousand miles a

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week promoting his hybrid seeds

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his slogan

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''An astonishing product

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produces astonishing results''

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Narrator: But the seed cost 50 times more

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than ordinary corn

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Garst: [Trying to sell his seeds to other farmers]

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Narrator: One of Garst colleagues notes

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" You would say, 6 or 7 dollars a bushel

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and you could almost see them

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reaching around to their hip pocket to get the gun"

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["Garst- come on sir']

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[farmer- listen, I'm not interested get, get off my land"]

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['Garst- I just wanted to give you the chance of your lifetime']

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["Farmer- get off my land']

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Narrator: Its a hard sell

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when a third of U.S. farms

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are being abandoned

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[Garst: We had to sell the corn

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if I didn't trade the corn for money

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we wouldn't eat or sleep]

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Narrator: Garst gambles everthing

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he gives farmer's the seed for free

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in return for a share of their profit's

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Across 50 counties in two states

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in the worst drought ever

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miraculous growth

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but Garst isn't finished

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he sell's another revolutionary product

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taken from natures chemistry set

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nitrogen fertilizer

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spewed from volcano's

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during the birth of our planet

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nitrogen makes up

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78 percent of earth's atmosphere

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its invisible odorless, inert

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but when scientist learn

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to isolate nitrogen and turn the gas

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into nitrate a nutrient essential

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for the growth of plants

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they uncover the key

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to feeding the world's growing population

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Garst, markets the new product

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with a salesmen flare

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sewn into a field

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in a distinct pattern

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"N" for nitrogen

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Written into the grass of the Midwest

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a clear message for the future

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today almost every industrial farm

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uses nitrogen fertilizer

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Garst becomes a

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international farming consultant

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and one of the largest seed suppliers in the world

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Russell: We found out that

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the food supply is not

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finite, that we can actually continue to increase it

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to match the increasing population

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Narrator: In 30 years

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the worlds population grows

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from 2 billion to 3 billion

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15 years later

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4 billion and rising

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but with new crops and fertilizer's

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we've grown more in the last

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100 years than in the previous ten thousand

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Bourdain: Fertilizer allowed us

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to grow more, faster

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and more productively

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it could increased the food supply

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Narrator: But as our numbers

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explode so does the

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scale and reach of human conflict

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1942, mankind's first

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truly global war

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In Europe,Nazi Germany dominates

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in the pacific imperial Japan

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the largest state

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in the U.S. Alaska

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dangerously close to Asia

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and isolated

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[testing bombs]

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Now 11,000 American soldiers

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blaze an impossible trail

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the out can highway

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to link Alaska to west coast Canada

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and the rest of the United States

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an engineering challenge

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that will connect a continent

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In command General William Hoge

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decorated war hero

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engineering genius

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battling some of the most

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rugged terrain on the planet

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he'll unlock a building boom

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Meigs: What the out can highway

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shows is it modern civilization

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can project itself

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into the wilderness

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with incredible speed

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Narrator: The challenge ahead

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1,500 miles of forest in tundra

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200 rivers

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and the highest mountains

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in North America

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Hoge's greatest obstacle

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time

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just 8 months

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to complete the highway

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before the Alaska winter

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In Hoge's command

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Corporal Refines Sims

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from Philadelphia

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one of nearly 4,000

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African Americans soldier's in Alaska

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a third of the workforce

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[we were in wilderness, we saw nothing but trees upon trees]

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Narrator: Seven teams

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hundred of miles apart

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racing to meet in the middle

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but with a third of the road unfinished, disaster

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permafrost

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a layer of frozen ground

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up to 2,000 feet deep

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exposed by bulldozer's

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it melts into sinking mud

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[we only found out about the

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permafrost when it was to late]

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trucks and caterpillars sink

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into the muck til

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they were out of sight]

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Narrator: The army is loosing

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battle against nature

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at stake the security

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of the united states

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and time is running out

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Alaska, army engineers

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racing to build the out can highway

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a supply route that will

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help launch the greatest

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road building boom

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in mankind's history

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but the project was

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stuck in the mud

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McNichol: This was a extraordinary

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effort for the Alaskan road

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became mired in mud

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vehicles couldn't move

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Narrator: General Hoge has a radical idea

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ditch the bulldozers

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engineers become ax men

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[the only thing to do was make a matter, timber and branches]

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Narrator: Corporal Refines Sims

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leads a team laying a solid foundation

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corduroying, an old roman technique reinvented

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but progress plummet's

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from 14 miles a day to just 1

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for thousand's of years

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the key to mankind's ambition engineering

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No longer prisoner's of geography

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we re-write nature

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we overcome each new obstacle

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by force of will

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Gates jr: This ability has shaped

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not just our existence

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but, the fact that we are the

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prodominate life form on the planet

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Narrator: With winter closing in

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two teams, one black one white

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battle the weather to complete the final strectch

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Wunderlich: Bitter cold, permafrost

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wild animals completely untamed wilderness

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men sat on the side of

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the road and wept in pain

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Narrator: October 29, 1942

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temperature heading for minus 50

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[cheering]

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but today, the two ends of the road meet

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Corporal Refines Sims

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becomes a national hero

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Wunderlich: It was a shining symbol

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of the fact these men are equal

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to the task their equal to their

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white counter parts, their equal men

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Narrator: Within six years

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the U.S. army

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is racially integrated

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The out can highway complete

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part of a 16,000 miles road

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The world's longest drivable route

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running the length of the America's

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Meigs: It was huge step forward

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and it lead to such a demand

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for more roads, that we see roads now

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literally circling the planet

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Narrator: Within half a century

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the world is racked

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in a network of roads

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long enough to stretch

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to the moon and back, 20 times

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But while warfare

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on a global scale

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push's us to connect the world and reshape

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it also unleashes a new

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and and terrifying source of power

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that could support human life

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on earth for million of years

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or obliterate it

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[ sound's of explosions]

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August 6th, 1945

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two miles above the pacific ocean

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bomber pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets

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30 years old

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a military prodigy

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on a secret mission to end

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world war II

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In Tibbet's pocket

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12 cyanide tablets

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one for each man on board

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capture is not a option

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they know to much

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over 5 thousand years

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and 14,500 wars

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up to 3.5 billion have died

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battling to exert maximum force

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at maximum distance

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with each new generation

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a new weapon

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Wunderlich: We talk about arms races

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and this has been going on

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since the beginning of time

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um you hit me with a stick I

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hit you with a bigger stick

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Narrator: But mankind has never

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know a weapon like this

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the ultimate projection of power

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the atom bomb

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code name, little boy

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target Hiroshima, Japan

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first the bomb need's to be armed

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Captain William Parson's

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one of its designers

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bomb comander

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he removed the detonator before take off

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to make it safe to fly

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now he must refit it

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The core of the bomb uranium

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born in a cosmic explosion

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six billion years ago

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before the birth of our planet

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dormant until scientist split its atoms

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unleashing a apocalyptic power

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to annihilate our species

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or fuel our future

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Dawn 850 miles from Japan

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an American B-29 bomber

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the anola gay

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carries the most destructive

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weapon in the history of mankind

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"Tibbets, I'd been intrusted with the most

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frightful weapon ever devised

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I thought yes, were going to kill

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a lot of people but, by god were

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going to save a lot of lives"

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Wunderlich: We have the power

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that we have always reserved

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only for God, we know have it

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to end everything its in human power

00:21:03.134 --> 00:21:05.025
that pervades every single

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part of our lives today

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Machowicz: The men aboard the anola gay

00:21:10.268 --> 00:21:12.319
knew what they had to do

00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:13.822
and they focused on the details

00:21:13.822 --> 00:21:15.868
of that mission in order to execute it

00:21:16.370 --> 00:21:18.800
no one really knows what's

00:21:18.800 --> 00:21:20.935
going to happen once this

00:21:20.935 --> 00:21:22.944
bomb leaves that aircraft

00:21:24.583 --> 00:21:26.190
Narrator: 9:14 a.m.

00:21:28.806 --> 00:21:30.551
a 60 second warning tone

00:21:31.976 --> 00:21:35.825
below them a city of 350,000 people

00:22:26.620 --> 00:22:30.122
Tibbits has 43 seconds to escape the blast zone

00:23:04.696 --> 00:23:08.078
[sound of bomb exploding]

00:23:16.236 --> 00:23:18.088
Narrator: An explosion 10,000

00:23:18.088 --> 00:23:20.702
times hotter than the surface of the sun

00:23:22.237 --> 00:23:26.082
the bomb kills more than 60,000 instantly

00:23:34.361 --> 00:23:37.154
3 days later a second atom bomb

00:23:40.874 --> 00:23:42.788
Japan surrenders

00:23:48.423 --> 00:23:50.601
Williams: Its the most fearsome thing

00:23:51.191 --> 00:23:52.941
this world can unleash

00:23:53.433 --> 00:23:55.143
that's why we've only seen

00:23:55.848 --> 00:23:57.529
two in the history of the world

00:23:59.660 --> 00:24:02.708
Narrator: Since 1945 mankind has

00:24:02.708 --> 00:24:04.518
been living in the atomic age

00:24:06.036 --> 00:24:08.228
today there are over 19,000

00:24:08.689 --> 00:24:09.882
nuclear war heads

00:24:10.385 --> 00:24:13.821
able to destroy our species 20 times over

00:24:15.500 --> 00:24:16.461
Meigs: With atomic weapons

00:24:16.935 --> 00:24:18.437
we finally hit that point

00:24:19.053 --> 00:24:22.247
of sort of a spiritual crisis

00:24:22.264 --> 00:24:23.727
have we gone to far

00:24:24.245 --> 00:24:25.357
and what does it mean

00:24:25.357 --> 00:24:26.441
that we can can control

00:24:26.441 --> 00:24:28.665
this most elemental of forces

00:24:28.985 --> 00:24:32.039
with such awesome destructive power

00:24:36.898 --> 00:24:38.617
Narrator: But with a terrible weapon

00:24:38.946 --> 00:24:41.883
also comes a revolutionary source of energy

00:24:52.584 --> 00:24:55.075
nuclear power, now the

00:24:55.075 --> 00:24:57.748
third largest generator of electricity

00:24:59.795 --> 00:25:00.895
with the potential to power

00:25:00.895 --> 00:25:03.477
our planet for billions of years

00:25:13.087 --> 00:25:14.363
In the 20th century

00:25:14.708 --> 00:25:16.025
technology and science

00:25:16.630 --> 00:25:17.590
are the key to

00:25:17.590 --> 00:25:18.965
enhancing our world

00:25:21.085 --> 00:25:22.692
human life takes a giant

00:25:22.932 --> 00:25:24.846
leap forward in a

00:25:24.846 --> 00:25:26.624
hospital in South Africa

00:25:32.938 --> 00:25:35.738
1967, Capetown

00:25:37.915 --> 00:25:39.177
Christiaan Barnard

00:25:43.207 --> 00:25:44.520
a medical pioneer with

00:25:44.520 --> 00:25:46.056
20 years experience

00:25:48.454 --> 00:25:49.677
preparing to re-engineer

00:25:50.530 --> 00:25:51.571
the human body

00:25:59.091 --> 00:26:01.242
the patient Louie Washkansky

00:26:02.683 --> 00:26:04.196
former boxer, an athlete

00:26:05.207 --> 00:26:08.696
he'll die without Barnard's ground breaking surgery

00:26:09.626 --> 00:26:11.857
the worlds first heart transplant

00:26:13.070 --> 00:26:14.646
Oz: It was the sentinel moment

00:26:14.999 --> 00:26:16.548
that showed everybody that

00:26:16.548 --> 00:26:18.440
technology and science married together

00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:20.157
could accomplish the unimaginable

00:26:20.415 --> 00:26:21.690
in improving human life

00:26:23.635 --> 00:26:25.145
Narrator: Key to the operation

00:26:25.373 --> 00:26:29.499
a new technology the life support machine

00:26:30.739 --> 00:26:33.174
the apex of human ingenuity

00:26:36.518 --> 00:26:38.597
technology has always improved

00:26:38.597 --> 00:26:41.897
our lives enabling us to by past

00:26:42.082 --> 00:26:43.648
the limits of our bodies

00:26:45.112 --> 00:26:47.247
and advance farther, faster

00:26:48.065 --> 00:26:49.476
than any other species

00:26:52.613 --> 00:26:55.277
now man and machine unite

00:26:55.869 --> 00:26:58.663
to re-engineer life itself

00:27:00.724 --> 00:27:03.933
Barnard, has done 50 heart transplants on dogs

00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:06.186
but never on a human

00:27:08.462 --> 00:27:09.718
"Barnard, I'm not ready for this

00:27:10.500 --> 00:27:12.276
the dogs didn't survive for long enough

00:27:13.465 --> 00:27:15.944
what right do I have to experiment on human"

00:27:32.252 --> 00:27:35.375
Narrator: Washkansky had 3 previous heart attacks

00:27:35.896 --> 00:27:37.177
he's critically ill

00:27:40.299 --> 00:27:41.956
a fist sized muscle

00:27:42.616 --> 00:27:45.546
vital to the life every person on the planet

00:27:47.955 --> 00:27:50.045
the human heart beats two and a half

00:27:50.045 --> 00:27:52.508
billion times in a average life

00:27:54.580 --> 00:27:57.220
one missed beat can be fatal

00:28:00.884 --> 00:28:03.584
first step, remove the dying heart

00:28:04.812 --> 00:28:06.119
and hook up Washkansky

00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:07.646
to a life support machine

00:28:08.466 --> 00:28:10.337
it will do the work of the heart

00:28:38.457 --> 00:28:39.376
"Barnard, I've never seen

00:28:39.376 --> 00:28:40.665
a chest like this before

00:28:42.657 --> 00:28:44.247
a human without a heart

00:28:45.397 --> 00:28:47.073
kept alive by a machine"

00:28:54.269 --> 00:28:55.243
Oz: Something so sacred as

00:28:55.243 --> 00:28:56.265
the human heart

00:28:56.521 --> 00:28:57.778
the organ of our poets

00:28:57.778 --> 00:28:59.047
the internal metronome of

00:28:59.047 --> 00:29:00.593
our bodies the thought that

00:29:00.593 --> 00:29:02.487
it could be removed and replaced

00:29:02.487 --> 00:29:04.713
and the patient still live , unimaginable

00:29:08.325 --> 00:29:09.583
Narrator: Three hours into

00:29:09.583 --> 00:29:11.442
the operation with the

00:29:11.442 --> 00:29:13.168
patients blood mechanically

00:29:13.168 --> 00:29:14.526
pumped through his body

00:29:15.269 --> 00:29:17.193
Barnard must attach the

00:29:17.193 --> 00:29:19.357
donor heart before it dies

00:29:45.083 --> 00:29:47.284
Barnard jump start's the new heart

00:29:47.954 --> 00:29:55.136
[clear the table, go ahead and shock it, shock]

00:29:57.776 --> 00:30:00.728
[intense music]

00:30:18.262 --> 00:30:21.818
the hear beat's but, it is

00:30:21.818 --> 00:30:23.677
still powered by a machine

00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:27.230
it has to beat on it's own

00:30:28.106 --> 00:30:30.474
or Washkansky will die

00:30:37.844 --> 00:30:39.806
the first ever heart transplant

00:30:41.046 --> 00:30:42.120
an operation that could

00:30:42.238 --> 00:30:44.182
revolutionize modern medicine

00:30:44.699 --> 00:30:46.112
at a critical stage

00:30:48.832 --> 00:30:50.564
after 3 heart attacks

00:30:50.896 --> 00:30:53.245
Louie Washkansky has a new heart

00:30:53.925 --> 00:30:56.289
still powered by a life support machine

00:30:59.032 --> 00:31:00.686
but when Christiian Barnard

00:31:00.886 --> 00:31:02.249
turns the machine off

00:31:03.095 --> 00:31:05.183
the new heart falters

00:31:07.102 --> 00:31:08.787
blood pressure drops

00:31:09.675 --> 00:31:10.661
it's failing

00:31:10.661 --> 00:31:11.857
[sound of machine beeping]

00:31:24.917 --> 00:31:26.725
Washkansky's heart is spent

00:31:30.631 --> 00:31:32.409
his life hangs in the balance

00:31:34.121 --> 00:31:36.803
with it the future of medicine

00:31:39.809 --> 00:31:41.053
Oz: Christiian Barnard's risk was not

00:31:41.053 --> 00:31:43.492
just with his career he, was also risking

00:31:43.492 --> 00:31:44.816
the dreams of many who believed we could

00:31:44.816 --> 00:31:47.202
do organ transplantation successfully

00:31:47.202 --> 00:31:48.537
that it wasn't just a gimmick

00:31:57.251 --> 00:31:59.245
Narrator: To save Washkansky's life

00:31:59.497 --> 00:32:01.781
Barnard put's him back on life support

00:32:02.614 --> 00:32:03.798
and tries again

00:32:04.978 --> 00:32:06.840
the new heart beat's

00:32:07.278 --> 00:32:10.273
and keeps beating without the machine

00:32:14.287 --> 00:32:17.059
the most complex operation in history

00:32:17.817 --> 00:32:18.781
a success

00:32:21.999 --> 00:32:23.514
Oz: Mechanical heart's transplanting

00:32:23.514 --> 00:32:24.896
other organs, the thought that we

00:32:24.896 --> 00:32:26.717
regenerate tissue, all this

00:32:26.717 --> 00:32:29.652
came about because one brave man

00:32:29.652 --> 00:32:32.279
was able accomplish one unimaginable feat

00:32:32.639 --> 00:32:34.262
and show it was all possible

00:32:36.941 --> 00:32:38.446
Narrator: Barnard's procedure has

00:32:38.446 --> 00:32:43.989
saved over 75,000 lives in the United States alone

00:32:44.674 --> 00:32:49.026
surgeons perform over 2,500 heart transplant's a year

00:32:50.886 --> 00:32:54.362
our organ's replaceable and re-engineered

00:32:59.528 --> 00:33:02.915
new body parts, new technology

00:33:03.342 --> 00:33:04.883
a new mankind

00:33:07.611 --> 00:33:09.518
but as science and technology

00:33:09.518 --> 00:33:11.477
free us from the limit's of our bodies

00:33:12.107 --> 00:33:13.676
across the world they are

00:33:13.676 --> 00:33:15.761
also key to a new victory

00:33:16.733 --> 00:33:19.566
in the struggle for individual rights and justice

00:33:29.520 --> 00:33:33.148
Selma Alabama, 1965

00:33:34.549 --> 00:33:38.242
600 African American's demand change

00:33:39.978 --> 00:33:42.833
inspiring a global fight for freedom

00:33:44.338 --> 00:33:45.673
Amelia Boynton

00:33:48.241 --> 00:33:51.696
53 years old, a civil rights activist

00:33:51.696 --> 00:33:52.691
since high school

00:33:55.772 --> 00:33:57.786
Camarillo: Risk taker absolutely

00:33:58.173 --> 00:34:00.196
committed to chance absolutely

00:34:00.777 --> 00:34:02.403
hero absolutely

00:34:03.892 --> 00:34:05.712
Narrator: Marching for the right to vote

00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:08.003
blocking her way

00:34:08.905 --> 00:34:10.704
centuries of discrimination

00:34:15.195 --> 00:34:17.108
racism rules in the south

00:34:17.879 --> 00:34:21.113
but only 25 percent of blacks and southern states

00:34:22.070 --> 00:34:23.517
are registered voters

00:34:24.024 --> 00:34:26.538
volunteer Boynton, helps them sign up

00:34:27.117 --> 00:34:31.403
[next, is this your full name?]

00:34:31.513 --> 00:34:32.404
[yes sir]

00:34:32.858 --> 00:34:35.531
[you haven't filled this section in, can you right?]

00:34:36.100 --> 00:34:37.690
[sir I know I don't have that piece]

00:34:37.690 --> 00:34:38.812
[ I can't help you]

00:34:38.812 --> 00:34:39.354
[please sir]

00:34:39.354 --> 00:34:40.596
[go to the back of the line!]

00:34:41.577 --> 00:34:42.149
[next]

00:34:44.057 --> 00:34:45.936
Narrator: White authorities block their path

00:34:46.373 --> 00:34:49.947
with red tape, and police intimidation

00:35:16.681 --> 00:35:21.001
[confrontation between police and a man standing in line]

00:35:29.607 --> 00:35:31.863
Narrator: the only option, protest

00:35:33.201 --> 00:35:36.321
Camillo: People knew, like she did

00:35:37.281 --> 00:35:40.657
that you protest in the south and you

00:35:40.673 --> 00:35:42.263
risk life and limb

00:35:43.046 --> 00:35:44.214
they knew it was dangerous

00:35:44.726 --> 00:35:46.493
but they were also driven

00:35:47.364 --> 00:35:50.122
for this struggle for equality

00:35:52.363 --> 00:35:54.681
Williams: It's very hard to bottle up

00:35:54.784 --> 00:35:56.230
the notion of freedom

00:35:56.524 --> 00:35:58.213
once it's been uncorked

00:36:00.166 --> 00:36:02.047
sadly, as long as there's been

00:36:02.047 --> 00:36:03.346
human kind and as long

00:36:03.346 --> 00:36:05.671
as were around, there's going to

00:36:05.671 --> 00:36:08.953
be this tug of war between democracy and repression

00:36:10.772 --> 00:36:14.082
Narrator: their destination the state capitol Montgomery

00:36:28.167 --> 00:36:30.919
determined to stop them, Jim Clark

00:36:35.327 --> 00:36:37.433
World War II, aircraft gunner

00:36:37.898 --> 00:36:38.857
Selma Sheriff

00:36:40.907 --> 00:36:44.118
he deputizes every white male over 21

00:36:48.984 --> 00:36:50.954
joining 200 state troopers

00:36:53.681 --> 00:36:56.360
but this confrontation won't go unseen

00:36:58.010 --> 00:37:00.228
on the ground is local camera man

00:37:00.371 --> 00:37:01.419
Lawrence Pierce

00:37:06.179 --> 00:37:10.407
new's hungry, committed tough as nails

00:37:15.496 --> 00:37:18.099
the journalist with the biggest story of his life

00:37:24.942 --> 00:37:28.059
new technologies will harness the powers

00:37:28.115 --> 00:37:29.732
of mass communication

00:37:31.201 --> 00:37:33.061
information will travel further

00:37:33.061 --> 00:37:35.084
and faster than ever before

00:37:45.423 --> 00:37:46.632
a 3 minute warning

00:37:47.809 --> 00:37:49.759
to disperse and go home

00:37:53.623 --> 00:37:55.637
but the protestor's won't back down

00:38:01.130 --> 00:38:04.651
90 seconds later the police attack

00:38:08.484 --> 00:38:10.394
40 cans of tear gas

00:38:11.908 --> 00:38:13.695
8 cans of nausea gas

00:38:16.262 --> 00:38:19.290
on the receiving end activist Emilia Boynton

00:38:21.899 --> 00:38:25.038
Machowicz: Imagine the courage and the fear

00:38:25.961 --> 00:38:28.929
that they have to confront as club

00:38:29.631 --> 00:38:34.067
and foot and hand is smashed upon them

00:38:34.439 --> 00:38:36.991
until their driven into the ground

00:38:42.314 --> 00:38:44.191
Narrator: Boynton, left for dead

00:38:46.092 --> 00:38:48.543
she'll be unconscious for 2 days

00:38:50.996 --> 00:38:52.516
but, the world is watching

00:39:00.526 --> 00:39:01.962
Selma Alabama

00:39:03.182 --> 00:39:05.658
police attack a non-violent protest

00:39:09.155 --> 00:39:11.695
civil right activist Emelia Boynton

00:39:12.212 --> 00:39:14.102
is on of 50 who are injured

00:39:15.214 --> 00:39:17.785
but, key to any protest movement

00:39:17.919 --> 00:39:20.332
in the modern age, television

00:39:22.505 --> 00:39:24.036
journalist Lawrence Pierce

00:39:24.354 --> 00:39:25.895
rush's film to New York

00:39:30.748 --> 00:39:32.619
15 minutes of raw footage

00:39:32.748 --> 00:39:35.517
interrupts (ABC) Sunday night movie

00:39:41.331 --> 00:39:43.914
the birth of breaking TV news

00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:50.418
by 1965, nine out ten

00:39:50.595 --> 00:39:53.019
American families own a television

00:39:54.823 --> 00:39:57.677
over 70 percent of the adult population

00:39:58.291 --> 00:40:00.594
watch the TV new every evening

00:40:01.953 --> 00:40:04.553
all three networks show the Selma violence

00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:07.327
45 million viewers

00:40:13.478 --> 00:40:16.446
Gates: Television made horror and brutality local

00:40:17.289 --> 00:40:19.456
so local, that it was in your living room

00:40:20.254 --> 00:40:21.988
that had never happened before

00:40:21.994 --> 00:40:23.544
in the history of the United States

00:40:30.157 --> 00:40:32.057
Willams: The nation couldn't look away

00:40:32.300 --> 00:40:35.247
people were amazed , however grainy

00:40:35.438 --> 00:40:37.632
however black and white at immediacy

00:40:37.710 --> 00:40:39.922
of those image's, the people who

00:40:39.978 --> 00:40:42.142
were beaten to within a inch of their lives

00:40:42.609 --> 00:40:44.860
you didn't have to be in the movement

00:40:45.193 --> 00:40:47.100
to believe in civil rights

00:40:47.458 --> 00:40:50.296
but those pictures you couldn't turn off

00:40:51.699 --> 00:40:55.232
Narrator: Within 15 days, President Lyndon Johnson

00:40:55.428 --> 00:40:57.507
proposes the voting the rights act

00:40:58.101 --> 00:41:00.465
outlawing voter discrimination

00:41:01.253 --> 00:41:03.329
landmark legislation

00:41:04.503 --> 00:41:07.321
a turning point for civil rights in America

00:41:12.924 --> 00:41:17.132
media for the masses means repression won't go unseen

00:41:23.603 --> 00:41:25.839
in a world for instant communication

00:41:26.618 --> 00:41:28.374
everyone has a voice

00:41:30.925 --> 00:41:34.673
Lindbergh: Communication, helps to grow the concept

00:41:34.855 --> 00:41:36.516
and understanding of civilization

00:41:36.516 --> 00:41:38.194
in the human race on the earth

00:41:38.628 --> 00:41:42.242
equalizing the classes, equalizing the culture's

00:41:43.202 --> 00:41:44.402
Narrator: The greater the numbers

00:41:44.712 --> 00:41:46.160
the stronger the bonds

00:41:46.868 --> 00:41:48.320
in a world of connections

00:41:51.202 --> 00:41:53.016
we are the product of our history

00:41:54.153 --> 00:41:55.916
100,000 thousand years ago

00:41:56.387 --> 00:41:59.183
the emergence of an extraordinary species

00:42:06.887 --> 00:42:11.035
Megis: One thing that defines humanity is skill

00:42:11.766 --> 00:42:14.453
anything that you learn to do that

00:42:15.581 --> 00:42:17.138
nature didn't program you to do

00:42:17.748 --> 00:42:19.150
Narrator: A hunger to survive

NOTE Paragraph

00:42:19.970 --> 00:42:21.641
fuels a power to invent

00:42:23.212 --> 00:42:27.541
[the innovator survive, the innovator's had success ]

00:42:29.530 --> 00:42:30.816
Narrator: Our thirst for knowledge

00:42:31.593 --> 00:42:32.992
a quest to explore

00:42:34.969 --> 00:42:36.843
William: This is what we do

00:42:37.188 --> 00:42:39.237
never content with were we are

00:42:39.514 --> 00:42:42.067
were, always looking over there and over there

00:42:42.067 --> 00:42:45.910
may mean oceans or mountains or continents away

00:42:46.807 --> 00:42:48.298
Narrator: We forge connections

00:42:49.117 --> 00:42:51.280
but contact can bring conflict

00:42:52.671 --> 00:42:53.578
Brands: One of the striking things

00:42:53.578 --> 00:42:55.431
about humans is there never any human society

00:42:55.710 --> 00:43:02.380
that hasn't had war, maybe its necessary to our evolution

00:43:05.802 --> 00:43:09.204
Narrator: Mankind most enduring enemy disease

00:43:10.643 --> 00:43:12.529
Oz: I'm confident in our life time

00:43:12.922 --> 00:43:15.409
we experience a pandemic that is similar scope

00:43:15.409 --> 00:43:17.939
to the bubonic plague, but now we have

00:43:17.962 --> 00:43:20.029
and advantage, now we know its possible

00:43:20.628 --> 00:43:21.412
we know what we can do

00:43:21.412 --> 00:43:22.756
to stop it, we know what we

00:43:22.756 --> 00:43:24.496
can do cure people who are infected

00:43:24.940 --> 00:43:26.539
we will use science to beat back the

00:43:26.539 --> 00:43:27.754
things we have feared the most

00:43:28.488 --> 00:43:30.364
Narrator: Yet in our darkest moments

00:43:30.977 --> 00:43:32.807
we find enlightenment

00:43:33.719 --> 00:43:35.268
and with all we've learned

00:43:35.915 --> 00:43:37.138
we face the future

00:43:38.948 --> 00:43:40.407
Wunderlich: History is the road map

00:43:41.178 --> 00:43:41.891
and with out it

00:43:42.831 --> 00:43:46.040
there is no way to navigate the furture

00:43:46.587 --> 00:43:47.737
its not possible

00:43:49.828 --> 00:43:51.806
Narrator: Now a new journey

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into inner space

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Oz: The most important

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place for us to investigate the

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body now is the brain

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in order to enter the

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next realm of longevity

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and wealth and health among humanity

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Narrator: That same instinct to

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discover ourselves will fuel

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the exploration of our universe

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will unlock the power of the sun

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and reach out into space

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There's a human need to investigate

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to explore to see new lands I think

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that drive will eventually will lead us

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to other planets

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Narrator: The next step a new home

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Megis: There's no question

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humans will be going to mars

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probably within the lifetime

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of people who are alive today

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Narrator: The story of mankind is only just beginning

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