Sioux Falls Free Thinkers endorse Panama Canal for showing how
Americans built the Panama Canal. Not shown is how America took
the canal zone away from its rightful owner, Columbia, using
gunboats and marines. Columbia had no gunboats or
marines so they surrendered the canal zone and
had to try to get the best terms they could.

Panama Canal
Gateway to the American Century

Panama Canal (2011) - 90 minutes
Panama Canal at Amazon.com

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower. This American Experience film using an extraordinary archive of photographs and footage, interviews with canal workers and firsthand accounts of life in the Canal Zone, unravels the remarkable story of one of the world's most significant technological achievements.

Panama Canal
Gateway to the American Century

Sioux Falls Free Thinkers endorse Panama Canal for showing how
Americans built the Panama Canal. Not shown is how America took
the canal zone away from its rightful owner, Columbia, using
gunboats and marines. Columbia had no gunboats or
marines so they surrendered the canal zone and
had to try to get the best terms they could.