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How We Got Here

How We Got Here

★ 9.0/10•2015•25m•Documentary
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StatusReturning Series
Runtime25m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJan 6, 2015

Episodes

Episode 1 - Nazis Get Us to the MoonE125m

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.

Jan 6, 2015

Episode 2 - Cars Win World War IIE225m

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.

Jan 6, 2015

Episode 3 - Gold Makes HeadlinesE325m

Gold Makes Headlines

George Hearst is on the verge of giving up his dream of striking gold during the '49 gold rush. But if he gives up, his son will never become a newspaper magnet, and Richard Nixon may never be held accountable for his actions in the Watergate scandal.

Jan 13, 2015

Episode 4 - Colt Makes All Men EqualE425m

Colt Makes All Men Equal

Samuel Colt's invention of the revolver and his use of mass production techniques to build it help drive the industrial revolution in the United States, directly linking him to the United States role as a world superpower.

Jan 20, 2015

Episode 5 - Denim Defeats CommunismE525m

Denim Defeats Communism

Dry goods store owner Levi Strauss agrees to finance tailor Jacob Davis' design for overalls with copper rivets. The rivets help make Davis work clothes resistant to tears in the canvas fabric. Strauss patents the design, later switches the material from canvas to denim, and creates Levi's blue jeans, which over time becomes the worldwide symbol of youth and rebellion, including rebellion that leads to the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

Jan 27, 2015

Episode 6 - Morse Code Connects Us AllE625m

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.

Feb 3, 2015

Episode 7 - Clara Barton Saves the WorldE725m

Clara Barton Saves the World

It's September 17, 1862, and The Battle of Antietam rages! Standing right in the thick of the fight is a former schoolteacher with brave purpose - Clara Barton. If she dies, the American Red Cross would not exist.

Feb 10, 2015

Episode 8 - Deep Throat Exposes the PresidencyE825m

Deep Throat Exposes the Presidency

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.

Feb 17, 2015

Episode 9 - Beer Unites AmericaE925m

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.

Feb 24, 2015

Episode 10 - Rockefeller's Oil EmpireE1025m

Rockefeller's Oil Empire

A twenty-four year old bookkeeper, John D Rockefeller, is about to bet every penny he has on a fledgling upstart industry. If the accountant is wrong about the budding oil industry, the era of the automobile might not take off.

Mar 9, 2015

Episode 11 - Steel Builds the MetropolisE1125m

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.

Mar 3, 2015

Episode 12 - Harley Hogs the RoadE1225m

Harley Hogs the Road

Two young frustrated mechanics in Milwaukie have an idea - to put an engine inside of a bicycle frame. If William Harley and Arthur Davidson give up now, the motorcycle as we know it will never exist.

Mar 17, 2015

Actors

Joey Pepin

Joey Pepin

Himself - Narrator (voice)

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