Man, Moment, Machine - Season 1

Man, Moment, Machine - Season 1

Season 1

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DatesAug 7, 2005 - Nov 8, 2005
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Episodes

Hunting Bonnie and Clyde
Season 1Episode 160 min

Hunting Bonnie and Clyde

An episode about Bonnie and Clyde Barrow use of the BAR machine gun to rob banks during the Great Depression.
Aug 7, 2005
The Great Sub Rescue
Season 1Episode 260 min

The Great Sub Rescue

Aug 9, 2005
Doolittle's Daring Raid
Season 1Episode 360 min

Doolittle's Daring Raid

Recalling Doolittle's Raid on Tokyo in 1942, when a squadron of B-25 bombers made a retaliatory attack headed by Lt. Col. James Doolittle.
Aug 16, 2005
Stormin' Norman and the Abrams Tank
Season 1Episode 460 min

Stormin' Norman and the Abrams Tank

General Norman Schwarzkopf uses the M1A1 Abrams tank to liberate the Kuwaitis in just 100 hours in the "Mother of all battles" against the elite Republican Guard in Kuwait.
Aug 16, 2005
Shot Down: The U-2 Spyplane
Season 1Episode 560 min

Shot Down: The U-2 Spyplane

Aug 30, 2005
Mine Rescue Mask
Season 1Episode 660 min

Mine Rescue Mask

An episode dealing with the African American Inventor Garrett Morgan and his patented Morgan Safety Mask. His invention rose to prominence in 1916, when it was used to rescue 32 men in a collapsed tunnel underneath Lake Erie, and eventually became the basis for Air Rescue and Safety Masks used by the Military and Civilians alike.
Sep 13, 2005
Wernher von Braun and the V2 Rocket
Season 1Episode 760 min

Wernher von Braun and the V2 Rocket

Sep 20, 2005
Thomas Edison and the Electric Chair
Season 1Episode 860 min

Thomas Edison and the Electric Chair

This episode explores the intersection between the invention of the electric chair, its significant moment in history, and its inventor Thomas Edison.
Sep 27, 2005
Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose
Season 1Episode 960 min

Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose

Howard Hughes takes on the challenge to build an enormous flying boat capable of airlifting 750 troops and war materiel as heavy as tanks across the Atlantic Ocean in support of the Allied war effort, thus avoiding the threat of German U-boats. The project becomes the focus of Hughes OCD. Even after the project is canceled by the military his company successfully builds and Hughes personally flies the prototype dubbed by its detractors as the spruce goose.
Oct 4, 2005
Ultimate Weapon: Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb
Season 1Episode 1060 min

Ultimate Weapon: Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Father of the A-bomb, creates the world's deadliest weapon of mass destruction--with the "power of 1,000 suns" it can annihilate tens of thousands in a moment. His scientific brilliance is the power behind the atom bombs used against the Japanese during WWII, but his conscience led him to question the invention that helped end the war. Watch as Oppenheimer paces anxiously in New Mexico while the crew on a B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, deploys the massive "Little Boy" bomb towards the Aioi Bridge in Hiroshima. The resulting massive loss of life leads Oppenheimer to rethink the way in which nuclear energy was to be used.
Oct 11, 2005
The Higgins Landing Craft
Season 1Episode 1160 min

The Higgins Landing Craft

Oct 18, 2005
Dam Buster: WWII's Bouncing Bomb
Season 1Episode 1260 min

Dam Buster: WWII's Bouncing Bomb

Oct 25, 2005
25,000 Miles non-stop: Voyager Spacecraft
Season 1Episode 1360 min

25,000 Miles non-stop: Voyager Spacecraft

Nov 1, 2005
Sikorsky and the Rescue Chopper
Season 1Episode 1460 min

Sikorsky and the Rescue Chopper

Nov 8, 2005

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