How We Got Here - Season 1

How We Got Here - Season 1

Season 1

Network
DatesJan 6, 2015 - Mar 17, 2015

Episodes

Nazis Get Us to the Moon
Season 1Episode 1

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
Cars Win World War II
Season 1Episode 2

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
Gold Makes Headlines
Season 1Episode 3

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
Colt Makes All Men Equal
Season 1Episode 4

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
Denim Defeats Communism
Season 1Episode 5

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
Morse Code Connects Us All
Season 1Episode 6

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
Clara Barton Saves the World
Season 1Episode 7

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
Deep Throat Exposes the Presidency
Season 1Episode 8

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
Beer Unites America
Season 1Episode 9

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
Steel Builds the Metropolis
Season 1Episode 10

Steel Builds the Metropolis

Mar 3, 2015
Rockefeller's Oil Empire
Season 1Episode 11

Rockefeller's Oil Empire

Mar 10, 2015
Harley Hogs the Road
Season 1Episode 12

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

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