War Factories

  • Premiered: Jul 2019
  • Episodes: 22
  • Followers: 5
  • Running
  • U&Yesterday
  • Wednesday at 20
  • Documentary History War

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Season 2
2x1
Battle for Black Gold
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 05, 2020
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.
2x2
Fiat and the Fascists
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 12, 2020
Fiat didn't just make cars: they made trains, they made planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too.
2x3
The People's Car
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 19, 2020
While America had Ford or Chrysler or Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation: the 'people's car' - a Volkswagen.
2x4
Apocalypse Factories
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 26, 2020
The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories.
2x5
The Kamikaze Bullet
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 02, 2020
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.
2x6
Dambuster Factory
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 09, 2020
How the Lancaster factory, one of the biggest buildings in Europe at the time, helped to create a truly war-winning weapon.
2x7
Colt & Kalashnikov
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 16, 2020
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.
2x8 Season finale
The First Giants
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 23, 2020
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.

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