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 ...
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniserie...
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 ...
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.
Experts uncover the brutal chain of events that led to humans being killed by wild animals on Hunter...
Medical personnel are followed as they respond to emergency calls in the New York borough.
The Detonators was a reality series documentary that aired on the Discovery Channel. The program fea...
Rick Stein takes an epic culinary journey by sea, down rivers and overland to explore the Far East's...
Discover the remarkable ways animals of all shapes and sizes are adapting to make the most of opport...
Having spent the best part of 10 years talking about buildings, getting excited about new technologi...