How We Got Here
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How We Got Here

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A look at the stories of iconic Americans whose entrepreneurial genius radically changed their worlds and the future, creating new ideas and industries that transformed the United States in ways so profound, they are often taken for granted today.
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  1. S. 1 ÉP. 1 - Nazis Get Us to the Moon

    5 janvier 2015
    22 min
    TV-PG (ACCORD PARENTAL SOUHAITABLE)
    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.
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  2. S. 1 ÉP. 2 - Cars Win World War II

    5 janvier 2015
    22 min
    TV-PG (ACCORD PARENTAL SOUHAITABLE)
    A 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.
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  3. S. 1 ÉP. 3 - Gold Makes Headlines

    12 janvier 2015
    22 min
    TV-PG (ACCORD PARENTAL SOUHAITABLE)
    The 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.
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  4. S. 1 ÉP. 4 - Colt Makes All Men Equal

    19 janvier 2015
    22 min
    TV-PG (ACCORD PARENTAL SOUHAITABLE)
    In 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.
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  5. S. 1 ÉP. 5 - Denim Defeats Communism

    26 janvier 2015
    22 min
    TV-PG (ACCORD PARENTAL SOUHAITABLE)
    If 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.
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  6. S. 1 ÉP. 6 - Morse Code Connects Us All

    2 février 2015
    22 min
    TV-PG (ACCORD PARENTAL SOUHAITABLE)
    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.
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  7. S. 1 ÉP. 7 - Clara Barton Saves the World

    9 février 2015
    22 min
    TV-PG (ACCORD PARENTAL SOUHAITABLE)
    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.
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  8. S. 1 ÉP. 8 - Deep Throat Exposes the Presidency

    16 février 2015
    22 min
    TV-PG (ACCORD PARENTAL SOUHAITABLE)
    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.
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  9. S. 1 ÉP. 9 - Beer Unites America

    23 février 2015
    22 min
    TV-PG (ACCORD PARENTAL SOUHAITABLE)
    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.
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  10. S. 1 ÉP. 10 - Steel Builds the Metropolis

    2 mars 2015
    22 min
    TV-PG (ACCORD PARENTAL SOUHAITABLE)
    A 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.
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  11. S. 1 ÉP. 11 - Rockefeller's Oil Empire

    8 mars 2015
    22 min
    TV-PG (ACCORD PARENTAL SOUHAITABLE)
    A 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.
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  12. S. 1 ÉP. 12 - Harley Hogs the Road

    16 mars 2015
    22 min
    TV-PG (ACCORD PARENTAL SOUHAITABLE)
    Two 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.
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