How We Got Here

How We Got Here

Documentary 2015

Available on discovery+

The historical legends of great North American entrepreneurs whose visionary ideas transformed the United States and the world.

Documentary 2015

12

Starring Joey Pepin

EPISODE 1

Nazis Get Us To The Moon

As the Nazi regime crumbles, rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun leads a team of colleagues on a mission out of Germany to change the course of history.

22 min · 7 Jan 2015 G
EPISODE 2

Cars Win World War II

A chance meeting with personal hero Thomas Edison and a visit to a Chicago meat packing plant give Henry Ford an idea destined to profoundly change the world.

21 min · 7 Jan 2015 G
EPISODE 3

Gold Makes Headlines

Gold is discovered in California and a penniless prospector named George Hearst seeks his fortune. After much toil, his son takes over a newspaper.

22 min · 14 Jan 2015 G
EPISODE 4

Colt Makes Men All Equal

If a small team of Texas Rangers are killed by eighty Comanche warriors in 1844, America might not become an industrial powerhouse.

22 min · 21 Jan 2015 G
EPISODE 5

Morse Code Connects Us All

If Samuel Morse makes it to his wife's sickbed in time after hearing of her illness, the speed-of-light communication we use today will never exist.

21 min · 4 Feb 2015 G
EPISODE 6

Denim Defeats Communism

If tradesman Jacob Davis doesn't survive the California Gold Rush, he will never meet Levi Strauss, and the idea for the copper rivet will not be born.

21 min · 28 Jan 2015 G

Joey Pepin

Narrator
Dylan Weiss

Producer

About

How We Got Here

DOCUMENTARY

The historical legends of great North American entrepreneurs whose visionary ideas transformed the United States and the world.

Information

Studio: AHC
Released: 2015
Rated: 12

Languages

Original Audio: English (United States)
Audio and Subtitles