Los Angeles: Stories From The City - Episode 1 - Inventing the City

Los Angeles, one of the largest cities in the United States' and the world, has a unique story.

Home to indigenous tribes, just two hundred years ago it was a small outpost of Mexico, after it took possession of California from Spain after the Mexican War of Independence.

Taken by the US in the Mexican- American war of 1848, it remained a scrappy Cowtown until the discovery of oil in the 1890s.