In just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. Captains of industry built empires through innovation, ingenuity, determination, and sheer ruthlessness, while the labor of millions of working men and women -- most of them immigrants from Ireland and Northern Europe -- helped reinvent the way America did business.
The birth and development of the Industrial Revolution is explored by visiting factories, mines, and...
Britain is connected by miles of roads, canals, and railway. This series explores the history of ho...
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniserie...
Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Henry ford – their names ar...
Tony Robinson goes for a walk through some of Britain's beautiful and historic landscapes.
Half-hour program on the "real-life adventure" of big business. Newsman Eric Sevareid, who served as...
Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain to ...
The stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as ...
The BBC's orchestras are joined by world-renowned singers and musicians at some of the UK's most bea...
An enthralling, visually spectacular journey of Oman’s natural world, with unprecedented access to r...