Lost L.A.

- Season 2

(2017)

Interconnected lives of three people that lived through California's transition from native land to Spanish colony and from Mexican province to American state.

Examines L.A.'s efforts to reckon with its violent past by examining hanging trees and remnants of vigilant justice; the 1871 massacre of 18 Chinese immigrants; and railroad promotions that painted a picture of L.A. as a verdant paradise.

Redwood, iron, concrete - these are the materials that gave form to Los Angeles and shaped its identity in the national imagination. This show also questions the cultural legacy and environmental costs of the city's relentless growth.

The career of filmmaker Lois Weber, who rose to greatness in a nascent film industry open to women in creative leadership positions. The Central Casting Bureau which cast minorities in background roles while white actors got leading parts.

Explores two underground guidebooks - The Negro Travelers' Green Book and The Address Book - that reveal the hidden geographies many Angelenos had to navigate, exposing Los Angeles as a place of coded segregation and resistance.

Americans have long looked at the California shore and seen the end of the continent. Instead, this show interprets that sandy edge as the beginning of a Pacific world.