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.
Tony Robinson goes for a walk through some of Britain's beautiful and historic landscapes.
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...
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 ...
The birth and development of the Industrial Revolution is explored by visiting factories, mines, and...
What happens when you call 113? Follow the people when they take care of others on their worst days.
Celebrated as one of the greatest R&B singers of all time, R. Kelly’s genre defining career and play...
The most spectacular vehicles in the world are milestones of engineering that have changed land, wat...
Revealing the extraordinary animals, astonishing landscapes and remarkable people who live alongside...
With unique and unprecedented access to one of the world's oldest social networking societies this s...
This two-part series tells the story of the conflict in Afghanistan and asks what has been achieved ...
Sue Perkins, Alison Steadman and Stephen Mangan use a new form of navigation, Natural Navigation, in...
Liz Bonnin sets out to explore how animals meet, mate and in some cases form lifelong relationships,...