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After building his reputation as a formidable hunter on Lewis and Clark's Expedition into the newly acquired Louisiana Territory, John Colter chooses to stay out in the wilderness and enter the booming fur trade.

The end of the Second World War and the dawn of the nuclear age saw its two great victors go from allies to adversaries.

The most terrible weapon ever created changes the course of the war in the Pacific.

Take a journey through the history of science fiction and examine the cultural influences—such as the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race—that shaped Stanley Kubrick's visionary 1968 film, *2001: A Space Odyssey*.