Season 3 |
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#10 |
Reinventing the Wheel |
4th Aug 2025 |
2 months ago |
02:03 - 03:06 |
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Season 3, Episode 10 - "Reinventing the Wheel" Harvey Firestone races to innovation against a crosstown rival as they both bet big on bringing car tires to the nation.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
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#9 |
Wipe Out the Competition |
28th Jul 2025 |
2 months ago |
02:03 - 03:06 |
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Season 3, Episode 9 - "Wipe Out the Competition" Before toilet paper, Americans used just about anything--until the Scott brothers turn a mistake into an opportunity and invent the toilet paper roll, giving birth to a new billion-dollar industry.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#8 |
Pants on Fire |
21st Jul 2025 |
2 months ago |
02:03 - 03:06 |
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Season 3, Episode 8 - "Pants on Fire" Levi Strauss partners with a tailor who makes a groundbreaking discovery during the Gold Rush—sparking a blue jean boom and a fierce rivalry between two iconic companies that spans generations and builds a billion-dollar industry.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#7 |
Fight for the Fast Lane |
14th Jul 2025 |
2 months ago |
02:03 - 03:06 |
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Season 3, Episode 7 - "Fight for the Fast Lane" American cars get a makeover when an engineer creates the first sports car.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#6 |
Photo Bombs |
7th Jul 2025 |
3 months ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 3, Episode 6 - "Photo Bombs" An underdog breaks the mold by creating instant photography, revolutionizing how we take photos. And it kicks off a war of innovation between two iconic companies battling to be the number one camera brand in the country.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#5 |
Rise of the Office Machines |
30th Jun 2025 |
3 months ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 3, Episode 5 - "Rise of the Office Machines" To simplify tedious office tasks in the mid-20th century, one unknown company introduces the world's first photocopier and becomes a household name.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#4 |
Hardware Warfare |
23rd Jun 2025 |
3 months ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 3, Episode 4 - "Hardware Warfare" Family-owned hardware stores become behemoth brands who battle it out taking big risks, ushering in new innovations, and betting it all in a race to become the number one hardware store chain in America.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#3 |
Rise of the Internet Empires |
16th Jun 2025 |
3 months ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 3, Episode 3 - "Rise of the Internet Empires" An ambitious upstart leaves Wall Street to start an internet store that becomes a global empire, while a young computer programmer revolutionizes the way we buy and sell online--creating rival multibillion-dollar brands that become household names.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#2 |
The Retail Reckoning |
9th Jun 2025 |
4 months ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 3, Episode 2 - "The Retail Reckoning" Three American retail icons are born within months of each other in 1962, sparking a rivalry for the ages.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#1 |
The World in Your Palm |
2nd Jun 2025 |
4 months ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 3, Episode 1 - "The World in Your Palm" The biggest names in computers go head-to-head in a race to create the first portable computers. Through massive failures, shocking alliances, and the return of an American icon, they'll usher in their first ever handheld device, and then top it with the revolutionary creation of the smartphone.
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Network: History |
Status: Running |
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Season 2 |
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#9 |
Lunchbox Legends |
8th Jul 2024 |
1 year ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 2, Episode 9 - "Lunchbox Legends" Lunchtime is one of the most enjoyable meals of every kid's day, but before the 1960s it was just another meal. Then, three very different food visionaries take matters into their own hands to create lunch time favorites loved by children everywhere, from sandwiches, to fruit snacks, and a build-it-yourself pre-packaged lunch that has become a supermarket staple.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#8 |
Sneaker Head-to-Head |
1st Jul 2024 |
1 year ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 2, Episode 8 - "Sneaker Head-to-Head" Two sneaker companies become industry titans through a decades long battle for global dominance, as they unleash iconic footwear that will bring sneakers mainstream and make them part of the fabric of American culture.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#7 |
Rentals to Riches |
24th Jun 2024 |
1 year ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 2, Episode 7 - "Rentals to Riches" A down-on-his-luck car salesman has the visionary idea to start the first rental car company in America, and when he joins forces with cab company owner John Hertz, they spread their revolutionary business across the country. But when WWII veteran Warren Avis starts his own rental car company, fierce competition between the two gives rise to a new industry with a 0 billion annual market.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#6 |
Clash of the Computer Titans |
10th Jun 2024 |
1 year ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 2, Episode 6 - "Clash of the Computer Titans" A game designer named Steve Jobs starts a personal computer company in his parents' garage on his way to bringing computers mainstream. But when he commissions the help of a software design company run by Bill Gates, it's the beginning of one of the biggest rivalries in the history of American industry.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#5 |
Music on the Move |
3rd Jun 2024 |
1 year ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 2, Episode 5 - "Music on the Move" In the 1950s, rival electronics companies aim to make music portable for the first time ever. What follows is a decades-long rivalry that prompts the creation of iconic products like the Pocket Radio, Cassette Tape, Walkman and the CD, alongside the rise of two of the biggest companies in the world.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#4 |
Suite Dreams: Birth of the Modern Hotel |
20th May 2024 |
1 year ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 2, Episode 4 - "Suite Dreams: Birth of the Modern Hotel" Two visionaries breathe new life into the hotel industry in America and the world, by setting the modern standard for hospitality. Despite setbacks, economic downturns, and international conflict, these rivals will stop at nothing to be number one.
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Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#3 |
Easy Money |
13th May 2024 |
1 year ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 2, Episode 3 - "Easy Money" In the middle of the 20th century, a small piece of plastic revolutionizes the world of commerce as Diners' Club, Bank of America, and American Express race to change how people pay for everything kicking off the trillion dollar a year credit card industry.
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Network: History |
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#2 |
Internet Killed the Video Store |
6th May 2024 |
1 year ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 2, Episode 2 - "Internet Killed the Video Store" A database software engineer is inspired to create a bigger, unprecedented family friendly video-store, Blockbuster. But, as the dot com boom explodes an opening appears for two software executives in California to redefine the industry and take on the media giant with their online subscription service, Netflix.
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Network: History |
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#1 |
End of the Landlines |
29th Apr 2024 |
1 year ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 2, Episode 1 - "End of the Landlines" When Motorola introduces the first handheld portable telephone to the world, the futuristic technology sets off a fierce battle among international telecommunications companies to produce the most popular cell phone. The competition for the next great mobile device produces innovations such as flip phones, ringtones, and text messaging. But when a little-known tech upstart from Canada decides to combine the features of a computer with a cell phone to make a smartphone called the Blackberry, the way we use phones will never be the same again.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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Season 1 |
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#4 |
Dirty Work |
14th Aug 2023 |
2 years ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 1, Episode 4 - "Dirty Work" James Gamble and Harley Procter invent a revolutionary new soap that revolutionizes America and opens up a market to entrepreneurs in the late 1800s, when Americans rarely bathed and deadly diseases were commonplace.
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Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#3 |
A Whole New Ballgame |
7th Aug 2023 |
2 years ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 1, Episode 3 - "A Whole New Ballgame" The evolution of America's most beloved sports of baseball, basketball and football are made possible by the innovations of sporting goods pioneers named Spalding, Wilson, and the Rawlings brothers.
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Network: History |
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#2 |
The World Delivered |
31st Jul 2023 |
2 years ago |
01:00 - 02:03 |
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Season 1, Episode 2 - "The World Delivered" A century ago, shipping packages was slow and shipping overnight was impossible, until two Seattle brothers risk everything to reinvent shipping packages for all; a tenacious Yale graduate creates a world-famous express delivery service.
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Network: History |
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#1 |
Battle of the Superstores |
24th Jul 2023 |
2 years ago |
02:03 - 03:06 |
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Season 1, Episode 1 - "Battle of the Superstores" Founding fathers of the biggest retail stores in the world battle to be the first to innovate, build, and revolutionize the industry. And one of the top businessmen of the 20th century, Sam Walton, will construct the world's largest retail empire.
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Network: History |
Status: Running |
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