History & Warfare

S01 E02 — Leisure The Great Western Railway; luxury railway travel, from the Orient Express and the 900-mile Blue Train of South Africa to the Trans-Siberian Railway.

S01 E01 — American Titans Explore the effects of the Erie Canal on the Midwest and how the U.S. beer industry got started in Milwaukee.

S01 E02 — Boom to Bust With European competitors in ruins due to two World Wars, the region reigned supreme for nearly a century until the 1970s when economic crises, competition and further technological innovation changed everything.

S01 E01 — Inventing the City Charting the history of Los Angeles, from its inhabitation by Native Americans and the Spanish conquest through the oil boom of the late 19th century and building of the Los Angeles aqueduct.

S01 E02 — Bright Lights, Big City The Hollywood film studios are founded by Jewish immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe who achieve their American Dream by acquiring a social status equal to the Los Angeles WASP elite.

S01 E01 — The Deadliest Spitfire Skilled engineers and pilots return historic warplanes to the air; pilot and engineer Richard Grace and his team restore a survivor of the Spitfire's rare mark from 75-year-old wreckage, salvaged from a Belgian scrapyard.

S01 E02 — Vietnam Vet Pilot Shona Bowman is determined to get the battered Cessna Bird Dog, a Vietnam War mainstay, that she bought for £10,000 back in the sky; featuring recently rediscovered tapes of combat missions over Vietnam recorded by the pilots themselves.

S01 E03 — Holland's Forgotten Few Dutch pilots fought Hitler's Luftwaffe downing hundreds of aircraft; many joined the RAF but their outdated fighter vanishes; a family of restorers is recreating the Fokker D.XXI featuring rare color footage from a Dutch pilot.