Season 2

2020-08-05 · 45m

The 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.

2020-08-12 · 40m

Fiat didn't just make cars: they made trains, they made planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too.

2020-08-19 · 45m

While America had Ford or Chrysler or Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation: the 'people's car' - a Volkswagen.

2020-08-26 · 40m

The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories.

2020-09-02 · 45m

Japan 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.

2020-09-09 · 40m

How the Lancaster factory, one of the biggest buildings in Europe at the time, helped to create a truly war-winning weapon.

2020-09-16 · 45m

Long 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.

2020-09-23 · 40m

The First World War led to a number of astounding war factories, which laid the foundations and paved the way for modern factories of today.