

How We Got Here
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S1 E1 – Nazis Get Us to the Moon
5 ianuarie 201522minHitler 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.Încercare gratuită de discovery+ sau cumpărareS1 E2 – Cars Win World War II
5 ianuarie 201522minA chance meeting with Thomas Edison and a visit to a Chicago meatpacking plant give Henry Ford a dream destined to profoundly change the world. If he fails to put his inspiration into action, the United States will not win WWII.Încercare gratuită de discovery+ sau cumpărareS1 E3 – Gold Makes Headlines
12 ianuarie 201522minThe California Gold Rush is on, and penniless prospector George Hearst goes west to seek his fortune. A hard winter, a mortgaged mule and a hand of poker later allow his son William Randolph Hearst to start his media empire.Încercare gratuită de discovery+ sau cumpărareS1 E4 – Colt Makes All Men Equal
19 ianuarie 201522minIn 1844, a small team of Texas Rangers fights for their lives against eighty Comanche warriors. If they can't hold them off using Samuel Colt's revolvers, the US might not become the industrial powerhouse we know.Încercare gratuită de discovery+ sau cumpărareS1 E5 – Denim Defeats Communism
26 ianuarie 201522minIf tradesman Jacob Davis doesn’t survive the California Gold Rush, he will never meet Levi Strauss. The idea for the copper rivet will not be born, and the ultimate triumph of blue jeans will never happen.Încercare gratuită de discovery+ sau cumpărareS1 E6 – Morse Code Connects Us All
2 februarie 201522minWhen 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.Încercare gratuită de discovery+ sau cumpărareS1 E7 – Clara Barton Saves the World
9 februarie 201522minIt’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.Încercare gratuită de discovery+ sau cumpărareS1 E8 – Deep Throat Exposes the Presidency
16 februarie 201522minIf 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.Încercare gratuită de discovery+ sau cumpărareS1 E9 – Beer Unites America
23 februarie 201522minAmerica 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.Încercare gratuită de discovery+ sau cumpărareS1 E10 – Steel Builds the Metropolis
2 martie 201522minA telegraph operator is in the throes of a crisis. Trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad 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.Încercare gratuită de discovery+ sau cumpărareS1 E11 – Rockefeller's Oil Empire
8 martie 201522minA 24-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.Încercare gratuită de discovery+ sau cumpărareS1 E12 – Harley Hogs the Road
16 martie 201522minTwo young frustrated mechanics in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 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.Încercare gratuită de discovery+ sau cumpărare