War Factories (2019)
The untold secret story of war production that shaped the Second World War.
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Episode 1 - Battle for Black Gold
Release Date: 2020-08-05The 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.
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Episode 2 - Fiat and the Fascists
Release Date: 2020-08-12Fiat 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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Episode 3 - The People's Car
Release Date: 2020-08-19While 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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Episode 4 - Apocalypse Factories
Release Date: 2020-08-26The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories.
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Episode 5 - The Kamikaze Bullet
Release Date: 2020-09-02Japan 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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Episode 6 - Dambuster Factory
Release Date: 2020-09-09How 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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Episode 7 - Colt & Kalashnikov
Release Date: 2020-09-16Long 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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Episode 8 - The First Giants
Release Date: 2020-09-23The First World War led to a number of astounding war factories, which laid the foundations and paved the way for modern factories of today.