The Story of Us covers a significant number of wars that among others, include the Revolutionary War, Civil War, and the infamous World Wars. This battle sequences show brutal scenes of war that involve dismemberment from gunshot wounds and very graphic secondary and primary explosion injuries with traumatic amputations. Often times these scenes are gory and accompanies by massive amounts of blood spray.

Drugs are used in moderation in the series, but most definitely not nonexistent. Presidents and people of Congress are often shown experimenting with Marijuana and psychedelic drugs like LSD. Various other references to drugs are shown in the series.