War Factories

Season 2

2020 · 8 episodes · 5h 40m in all · 5.0/10

Episodes

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   1. Battle for Black Gold

   5 Aug 2020 · 45 min · 5.0/10

   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.

2. 

   2. Fiat & the Fascists

   12 Aug 2020 · 40 min · 5.0/10

   Fiat didn't just make cars: they made trains, they made planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too.

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   3. The People's Car

   19 Aug 2020 · 45 min · 5.0/10

   While America had Ford or Chrysler or Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation: the 'people's car' - a Volkswagen.

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   4. Apocalypse Factories

   26 Aug 2020 · 40 min · 5.0/10

   The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories.

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   5. The Kamikaze Bullet

   2 Sept 2020 · 45 min · 5.0/10

   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.

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   6. Dambuster Factory

   9 Sept 2020 · 40 min · 5.0/10

   How the Lancaster factory, one of the biggest buildings in Europe at the time, helped to create a truly war-winning weapon.

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   7. Colt & Kalashnikov

   16 Sept 2020 · 45 min · 5.0/10

   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.

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   8. The First Giants

   23 Sept 2020 · 40 min · 5.0/10

   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.