Season 2
8 episodes · Aug 5, 2020
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S2E1Battle for Black Gold
Aug 5, 202045mThe story of the discovery and exploitation of the Baku Oilfields in the Russian Caucasus, which forced Stalin and Hitler to face-off in the battle of Stalingrad.
S2E2Fiat & the Fascists
Aug 12, 202040mFiat didn't just make cars: they made trains, they made planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too.
S2E3The People's Car
Aug 19, 202045mWhile America had Ford or Chrysler or Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation: the 'people's car' - a Volkswagen.
S2E4Apocalypse Factories
Aug 26, 202040mThe incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories.
S2E5The Kamikaze Bullet
Sep 2, 202045mJapan would create arguably the greatest fighter in WW2 - the Mitsubishi Zero. But their failed War Factories would ultimately reduce the Zero to a Kamikaze plane.
S2E6Dambuster Factory
Sep 9, 202040mHow the Lancaster factory, one of the biggest buildings in Europe at the time, helped to create a truly war-winning weapon.
S2E7Colt & Kalashnikov
Sep 16, 202045mLong before Henry Ford, Samuel Colt was the true father of mass production. Ironically, it was the inadequacy of Soviet factory production which made the AK47 so effective.
S2E8The First Giants
Sep 23, 202040mThe First World War led to a number of astounding war factories, which laid the foundations and paved the way for modern factories of today.