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 stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as ...
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain ...
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...
The birth and development of the Industrial Revolution is explored by visiting factories, mines, and...
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...
Britain is connected by miles of roads, canals, and railway. This series explores the history of ho...
The epic history behind the creation of America, exploring how and why our ancestors came to this co...
The long and unique tale of The Grateful Dead.The tale of the Grateful Dead is inspiring, complicate...
This animated show depicts Charlie Chaplin with his friends, for the first time in computer- generat...
Revealing what actually happened during the Great Fire of London of 1666, hour by hour, and street b...
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the interior of the brain to reveal why people feel and think...
The 20th century was a golden age that changed the course of the world rapidly, irreversibly and dra...
Featuring battles between some of the biggest and baddest fighters of the animal kingdom and some of...
Producers give people thousand dollars and look closely at how they spend the money. Viewers will wi...
Rob Bell looks at the history of two famous vessels with links to the British Royal Family, revealin...