The Americans title sequence plays over the opening credits and shows various images from the United States and Soviet Union that are symbolic of both nations and their struggle against each other. The sequence in Season Three and Season Four was longer than the other seasons and showed additional images. Its first appearance is in the Season One episode "The Clock". |
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"Season One" | |||
Featuring: USAAF emblem
Symbol of the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) which existed until 1947 when the United States Air Force became its own service. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: State Emblem of USSR
State emblem of the USSR at the Tsaritsyno Museum in Moscow. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Binoculars and USSR map
Map of the USSR seen through binoculars against a backdrop of American townhouses. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Don't talk posters
Versions of "Don't talk" posters seen in both the USSR and USA during WW2. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Statues
The Marine Corps War Memorial showing the USA flag being raised over Iwo Jima and the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman statue made for the 1937 World's Fair. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Elizabeth Jennings
Elizabeth's Soviet passport and a Soviet literacy promotion poster reading "знани" (knowledge). |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Hula Hoop
A little girl playing with a hula hoop, representing Western decadence. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Baseball
An American boy plays baseball. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Scythe
A Russian boy learns how to cut crops with a scythe. The words "молодость побеждает" (youth wins) are superimposed. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Philip Jennings
Philip's Soviet passport with a USA WW2 poster. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Spy with briefcase
Classic spy with briefcase trying to outrun an assassin. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Assassin
Assassin chases the spy. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Astronaut
Astronaut representing the Space Race that existed between the USA and USSR. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Astronaut
Close-up of an astronaut representing the Space Race that existed between the USA and USSR. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Paige Jennings
Paige patting an American eagle statue. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Astronauts
American astronaut on the moon and a Soviet cosmonaut poster. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Vostok (East) rocket
A Vostok rocket which sent the first satellite (Sputnik) and first manned spacecraft (Vostok) into space. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: N-1 rocket
Specifications of the N-1 rocket which was to have carried cosmonauts to the moon. All four attempts failed with the second attempt (days before Apollo 11 landed on the moon) resulting in a huge explosion that killed 126 people. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: US cities list
A list of US cities including "Вашингтон" (Washington) and "Колумбус" (Columbus) written in Cyrillic. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Spy camera
Spy camera photographing secret documents. Nina Krilova used such a camera to frame Vasili Nikolaevich. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Santa Claus
A child with Santa Claus. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Karl Marx
Marx's face superimposed over Santa's. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Missile Command
Shot of the video game Missile Command. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Licorne nuclear test
Picture of the French Licorne nuclear test on July 3, 1970. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Operation Plumbbob nuclear test
Picture of the Operation Plumbbob "Priscilla" nuclear test on June 24, 1957. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Bikini Atoll nuclear test
Picture of the Bikini Atoll "Castle Romeo" nuclear test on March 27, 1954. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Document passing
Two spies pass documents in the street. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Aerobics
A group of Americans kicking while doing aerobics. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Hopak
A group of Soviet bloc dancers (possibly Ukrainians) kicking while performing the hopak. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: KGB arrest
A man being arrested by the Soviet secret police and being forced into an ambulance. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Soviet babies
Soviet baby poster and a picture of a baby. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Soviet and American babies
Soviet and American baby posters from WW2. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Elizabeth Jennings
Elizabeth being photographed through a car rear window. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Elizabeth Jennings and American family
Elizabeth being photographed through a car rear window and an American family picture in front of the White House. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Hooded prisoner
Prisoner before interrogation. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Unhooded prisoner
Prisoner before interrogation. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Model
Model at a car show. However, the car isn't American, it's a British Leyland Princess 10/20 Glassback. |
"Season Three" | |||
Featuring: Floppy disk
Floppy disk with label reading "19 октябрь" (19 October). |
"Season Three" | |||
Featuring: Soviet submarines and helicopters
Specifications of Soviet Hotel, Yankee, Delta and Typhoon class submarines. Specifications of Soviet Hip, Hind, Hook and Halo helicopters. |
"Season Three" | |||
Featuring: Rocky statue
Statue of the "Rocky" character from the film series. |
"Season Three" | |||
Featuring: Kremlin and Washington Monument
Kremlin and Washington Monument. |
"Season Three" | |||
Featuring: Christmas tree and boy skiing.
Christmas tree and boy skiing. |
"Season Three" | |||
Featuring: Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev
Gerald Ford, US President from 1974-77 and Leonid Brezhnev, USSR General Secretary from 1964-82 meet on November 23, 1974 at the Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control. |
"Season Three" | |||
Featuring: Soviet armored personal carriers
BTR-60 armored personal carriers in the Soviet-Afghan War. |
"Season Three" | |||
Featuring: Miracle on Ice
Photo from the 1980 Olympics ice hockey game in which the US upset the USSR 4-3 and went on to win the gold medal. Mike Ramsey #5, Valeri Vasiliev #6 and Vladimir Myshkin, goalie are seen. A stamp of USSR captain Alexander Maltsev. |
"Season Three" | |||
Featuring: Army Commanders Conference and stamps
Stamps of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and USSR hockey team captain Alexander Maltsev superimposed over redacted photo of a US Army Commanders Conference. |
"Season Three" | |||
Featuring: Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin
Stamp of Lenin and statue of Stalin. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Vladimir Lenin
A Lenin statue in front of a USSR emblem. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Lenin, Elizabeth and Philip Jennings
A Lenin statue with the word "мы" (we) superimposed and, Philip and Elizabeth's Soviet passport photos. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Lenin and George Washington
A Lenin statue with the word "народ" (people) superimposed and, a statue of George Washington. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Torch and George Washington
The Statue of Liberty's torch with the word "народ" (people) superimposed and, a statue of George Washington with "the people" superimposed. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Torch and Hand
The Statue of Liberty's torch and, a hand with "the people" superimposed. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev, USSR General Secretary from 1953-64 and John F. Kennedy, US President from 1961-63. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Yuri Andropov and Jimmy Carter
Yuri Andropov, Head of the KGB from 1967-82 (and USSR General Secretary from 1982-84) and Jimmy Carter, US President from 1977-81. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Leonid Brezhnev and Ronald Reagan
Leonid Brezhnev, USSR General Secretary from 1964-82 and Ronald Reagan, US President from 1981-89. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: US Capital Building
The US Capital Building, home of the US Congress. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Saint Basil's Cathedral
Saint Basil's Cathedral, operated as a division of the State Historical Museum since 1928. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Moscow State University
Moscow State University, the highest-ranking Russian educational institution. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: The Jennings
The Jenning's faces superimposed on a photo of an American family. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: US flag and USSR star
US flag and USSR star. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Car exploding
Somewhere in the Soviet bloc, a car explodes. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: USSR Emblem
USSR emblem. |
"Season One" | |||
Featuring: Title card
The Americans title card. |