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How We Got Here
Biography
2015
1 season
Available on iTunes
A series examining entrepreneurship and technological advances in the U.S.
Biography
2015
1 season
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EPISODE 1
Nazis Get Us to the Moon
Adolf Hitler has just died and the Nazi regime is crumbling. Amidst the chaos, rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun leads a team of colleagues on a daring escape out of Germany. If he doesn't escape, the race for outer space will turn out differently.
EPISODE 2
Cars Win World War II
A chance meeting with his personal hero Thomas Edison and a visit to a Chicago meat packing plant give Henry Ford a bold dream destined to profoundly change the world. If he fails to put his inspiration into action, the United States will not win WWII.
EPISODE 3
Gold Makes Headlines
Gold has been discovered in California and a penniless prospector named George Hearst goes west to seek his fortune. A hard winter, a mortgaged mule and a hand of poker later allow his son William Randolph Hearst to take over a second rate newspaper.
EPISODE 4
Colt Makes All Men Equal
Samuel Colt's mass production of the revolver changes the face of war and helps transform America into an industrial powerhouse.
EPISODE 5
Denim Defeats Communism
Tailor Jacob Davis, who invented the copper rivet for use in clothing, joins forces with businessman Levi Strauss to make blue jeans a popular American item.
EPISODE 6
Morse Code Connects Us All
When Samuel Morse receives an urgent message from afar that his wife is about to die, he races back to be by her side. If he makes it to her sickbed in time, the speed-of-light communication we use today will never exist.
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