The Mega-Brands That Built America

  • Premiered: Jul 2023
  • Episodes: 8
  • Followers: 14
  • Running
  • History
  • Sunday at 21
  • Documentary History

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Season 1
1x1
Battle of the Superstores
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 23, 2023
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.
1x2
The World Delivered
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 30, 2023
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.
1x3
A Whole New Ballgame
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 06, 2023
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.
1x4 Season finale
Dirty Work
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 13, 2023
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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