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...

The stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as ...

Britain is connected by miles of roads, canals, and railway. This series explores the history of ho...

Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Henry ford – their names ar...

Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain ...

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniserie...

Half-hour program on the "real-life adventure" of big business. Newsman Eric Sevareid, who served as...

Tony Robinson goes for a walk through some of Britain's beautiful and historic landscapes.

A six-part docuseries chronicling the journey of five elite American gymnasts as they head to the Ol...

Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over sev...

The tragicomic stories of Bülent Şevik, Ethem Akpolat and Hanifi Keleş, who are known for their simi...

In the automotive world, John DeLorean rose from engineer to executive to icon. But under the hood o...
Marking 100 years since the end of the First World War, Emmerdale 1918 uncovers the incredible untol...