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Battle Stations – Documentary (2000) – EP12 – Radar

Radar Details how one man was asked to develop a death ray, but discovered radar.

Days of Hope – 1916 The Matthew’s are country people who have a very different outlook to their children.

Days of Hope – 1921 In 1921 the pits were idle and the miners locked out because they refused wage[…]

Days of Hope – 1924 1924 saw the Labour Party form a government with Ramsey MacDonald as Prime Minister.

Days of Hope – 1926 Britain’s workforce is idle as the General Strike takes hold.

WWII The attack on Pearl Harbor brings America into World War. The war effort revitalizes the nation’s economy. American innovation[…]

Bust Boom turns to bust when the stock market crash ushers in the Great Depression. Dust storms blanket the Midwest[…]

Messerschmitt 262 We take the viewer inside the cockpits of the German pilots who flew the jet-powered Messerschmitt 262 which[…]

Cities Americans conquer a new frontier – the modern city – with Carnegie’s empire of steel as its backbone. Skyscrapers[…]

Boom America strikes oil and the boom time begins. Henry Ford brings the motorcar to the masses; the nation hits[…]