Samuel Colt and partners Edwin Smith & Daniel Wesson become locked in the first true “arms” race, as they compete to perfect the world’s first revolver.

Celebrated inventor Thomas Edison, goes to war with former assistant, Nikola Tesla, to determine who will power the world with electric light.

Joseph Pulitzer’s journalistic integrity is tested when young millionaire, William Randolph Hearst, sets out to be the king of the newspaper industry and revolutionise journalism.

The Wright Brothers build and fly the world’s first airplane, but they keep it a secret, leaving an opening for motor designer, Glenn Curtiss, to swoop in.

Outlines the lives of two titan's of the telecommunications industry. Farnsworth who's largely responsible for the invention of the television. And Sarnoff who while running RCA laid the ground work for the television networks of the 21st century.

J. Robert Oppenheimer is in charge of developing the world’s first nuclear bomb, but finds himself in a race against Hitler and his own nuclear scientist, Werner Heisenberg.