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Season 1

  • S01E01 Nazis Get Us to the Moon

    • January 6, 2015
    • AHC

    Rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun's involvement in the race for outer space.

  • S01E02 Cars Win World War II

    • January 6, 2015
    • AHC

    Henry Ford's inspiration and how it affects World War II.

  • S01E03 Gold Makes Headlines

    • January 13, 2015
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    After gold has been discovered in California, a prospector named George Hearst goes west to seek it; William Randolph Hearst takes over a second rate newspaper.

  • S01E04 Colt Makes All Men Equal

    • January 20, 2015
    • AHC

    Samuel Colt's mass production of the revolver changes the face of war and helps transform America into an industrial powerhouse.

  • S01E05 Denim Defeats Communism

    • January 27, 2015
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    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.

  • S01E06 Morse Code Connects Us All

    • February 3, 2015
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    Painter Samuel Morse devotes the second half of his life to the perfection of the electromagnetic telegraph system.

  • S01E07 Clara Barton Saves the World

    • February 10, 2015
    • AHC

    Nurse Clara Barton attends to wounded soldiers at the Battle of Antietam in 1862 and later founds the American Red Cross.

  • S01E08 Deep Throat Exposes the Presidency

    • February 17, 2015
    • AHC

    If future news reporter Bob Woodward doesn't meet the man we'll eventually come to know as "Deep Throat," an imperial presidency will never be brought to its knees. Mark Felt's story is now a key part of US history.

  • S01E09 Beer Unites America

    • February 24, 2015
    • AHC

    America has plunged into Civil War, and if German immigrant Adolphus Busch dies in a deadly standoff, one of the most familiar American products of all time will never exist.

  • S01E10 Steel Builds the Metropolis

    • March 3, 2015
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    Pennsylvania Railroad telegraph operator Andrew Carnegie makes a crucial decision that puts him on a path to change the world.

  • S01E11 Rockefeller's Oil Empire

    • March 10, 2015
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    Young bookkeeper John D. Rockefeller gambles on the budding oil industry in the 1860s and soon amasses a fortune in the billions.

  • S01E12 Harley Hogs the Road

    • March 17, 2015
    • AHC

    Young Milwaukee mechanics William Harley and Arthur Davidson put an engine inside a bicycle frame and revolutionize the motorcycle business.