Season 2
Season 2 • 2020
⭐ 2.5 / 5
Episodes
1. Battle for Black Gold
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.
2020-08-05 • 45 min
2. Fiat & the Fascists
Fiat didn't just make cars: they made trains, they made planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too.
2020-08-12 • 40 min
3. The People's Car
While America had Ford or Chrysler or Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation: the 'people's car' - a Volkswagen.
2020-08-19 • 45 min
4. Apocalypse Factories
The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories.
2020-08-26 • 40 min
5. The Kamikaze Bullet
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.
2020-09-02 • 45 min
6. Dambuster Factory
How the Lancaster factory, one of the biggest buildings in Europe at the time, helped to create a truly war-winning weapon.
2020-09-09 • 40 min
7. Colt & Kalashnikov
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.
2020-09-16 • 45 min
8. The First Giants
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.
2020-09-23 • 40 min
