‎Season 1 - Apple TV

TV Show · Documentary · History

HOW WE GOT HERE explores the question 'What might have been?' How would WWII have unfolded if Henry Ford never had a chance meeting with Thomas Edison and a visit to a Chicago meat packing plant? How would the space race have unraveled if rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun had never escaped from Nazi Germany?

2015 · 22m

Starring Joey Pepin

EPISODE 1

Nazis Get Us to the Moon

Hitler has died and the Nazi regime is crumbling. In the chaos, rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun leads his colleagues on a daring escape out of Germany. If he doesn't make it, the race for outer space will turn out differently.
EPISODE 5

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.
EPISODE 9

Beer Unites America

America has plunged into Civil War! If German immigrant Adolphus Busch dies in a deadly standoff, one of the most American products of all time will never exist. The story of Adolphus Busch and the power of beer is the unlikely story of How We Got Here.
EPISODE 10

Steel Builds the Metropolis

A telegraph operator is in the throws of a crisis situation! The trains along the Pennsylvania Railroad line have stopped and his boss can't be found. What Andrew Carnegie does next will either end his career or put him on a path to change the world.