How We Got Here

As the Nazi regime crumbles, rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun leads a team of colleagues on a journey out of Germany to change the course of history.

A chance meeting with personal hero Thomas Edison and a visit to a Chicago meat packing plant give Henry Ford an idea destined to profoundly change the world.

Gold is discovered in California and a penniless prospector named George Hearst seeks his fortune. After much toil, his son takes over a newspaper.

If a small team of Texas Rangers are killed against eighty Comanche warriors in 1844, America might not become an industrial powerhouse.

If Samuel Morse makes it to his wife's sickbed in time after hearing of her illness, the speed-of-light communication we use today will never exist.

If tradesman Jacob Davis doesn't survive the California Gold Rush, he will never meet Levi Strauss and the idea for the copper rivet will not be born.

If future news reporter Bob Woodward doesn't meet the man we'll eventually come to know as 'Deep Throat' an imperial presidency will never fall.

In 1862, The Battle of Antietam rages! Standing right in the thick of the fight is a former schoolteacher with brave purpose - Clara Barton.

If German immigrant Adolphus Busch dies in a deadly Civil War standoff, one of the most American products of all time will never exist.

A twenty-four year old bookkeeper, John D Rockefeller, is about to bet every penny he has on a fledgling upstart industry.

The trains along the Pennsylvania Railroad line have stopped. What Andrew Carnegie does next could put him on a path to change the world.

Two young frustrated mechanics have an idea - to put an engine inside of a bicycle frame. But will William Harley and Arthur Davidson prevail?