War Factories
(2019)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 3
Enterprise: The Rise of the Aircraft Carrier
Episode 6 - 7-01-2022
The story of the rise of the aircraft carrier and how it changed the tactics of sea warfare.
Haven't Seen
The Story of the Machine Gun
Episode 5 - 6-24-2022
This episode looks at the the invention of the machine gun, and how weapon that changed the art of war was adopted and adapted by war factories around the world. The Maxim Gun was developed by a British based American inventor called Hiram Maxim and was the first fully automatic machine-gun. The only problem was that it weighed a whooping 136 ibs. British company Vickers aquired Maxim's company and moved on the design.
Haven't Seen
GM Opel Blitz
Episode 4 - 6-17-2022
For the germans, the truck became the secret weapon that changed warfare. From the mountain passes of the Ardennes, across the deserts of Libya and the vast wilderness of Russia, the humble truck enabled the German army to conduct its lightning war with speed and efficiency it required. And the key machine in Blitzkrieg was the GM Opel Blitz. This episode tells the Story of the Blitz and the American-owned war factories that would produce them, putting business before country.
Haven't Seen
Porsche - Nazi Master Machines
Episode 3 - 6-03-2022
Ferdinand Porsche was one of the most influential engineers in Nazi Germany.
Haven't Seen
Skoda - The Factory That Struck Back
Episode 2 - 5-27-2022
When people think of Skoda, they think of cheap and efficient family cars. As early as the 1930s, their factory was a cover for espionage, sabotage and the liberation of Jews from all over Europe.
Haven't Seen
Rolls Royce - The Engine That Won the War
Episode 1 - 5-20-2022
43m
The Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster and Wellington bombers, aircraft that undoubtedly won the Battle of Britain, had one thing in common, they were powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine.
Haven't Seen
Season 2
The First Giants
Episode 8 - 9-23-2020
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.
Haven't Seen
Colt & Kalashnikov
Episode 7 - 9-16-2020
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.
7.3/10Haven't Seen
Dambuster Factory
Episode 6 - 9-09-2020
How the Lancaster factory, one of the biggest buildings in Europe at the time, helped to create a truly war-winning weapon.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
The Kamikaze Bullet
Episode 5 - 9-02-2020
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.
7.4/10Haven't Seen
Apocalypse Factories
Episode 4 - 8-26-2020
The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories.
8/10Haven't Seen
The People's Car
Episode 3 - 8-19-2020
While America had Ford or Chrysler or Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation: the 'people's car' - a Volkswagen.
7.4/10Haven't Seen
Fiat and the Fascists
Episode 2 - 8-12-2020
Fiat didn't just make cars: they made trains, they made planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too.
7.1/10Haven't Seen
Battle for Black Gold
Episode 1 - 8-05-2020
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.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
Season 1
Russia
Episode 8 - 9-04-2019
The remarkable story of how Stalin's massive war factories were dismantled and moved east on one and half million railway trucks, to avoid being lost to the Nazis.
6.3/10Haven't Seen
US Ships
Episode 7 - 8-28-2019
The story of America's `Liberty Ships', which were produced in incredible numbers and became known as the Model T Fords of the ocean.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
Occupied Territories
Episode 6 - 8-21-2019
The sabotaging efforts of Peugeot in Nazi-occupied France, where the bosses and workers cooperated with the Resistance to hinder the Nazis' use of military vehicles.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
US Aviation
Episode 5 - 8-14-2019
Henry Ford's plan, with the help of Albert Kahn, to build a giant factory in Michigan, covering 3.5million sq ft and including an aircraft production line half a mile in length.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
General Motors
Episode 4 - 8-07-2019
How the Americans, once they were provoked into war, out-produced the rest of the world so quickly and by such a huge margin, including the likes of General Motors.
7/10Haven't Seen
Vickers
Episode 3 - 7-31-2019
The role played by engineering giant Vickers during the Second World War, including the development of the Spitfire and how the Royal Navy recovered from losing so many warships.
7.2/10Haven't Seen
Krupp
Episode 2 - 7-24-2019
The story behind the Krupp company, who were responsible for the manufacture of two of Germany's most feared war products - the Panzer Tank and the U-boat.
7.1/10Haven't Seen
German Aviation
Episode 1 - 7-17-2019
The untold secret story of war production that shaped the Second World War, beginning with how the German aviation industry came to dominate the skies of Europe.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
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Apocalypse Factories
Episode 4 - 8-26-2020
The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories.
8/10Haven't Seen
US Ships
Episode 7 - 8-28-2019
The story of America's `Liberty Ships', which were produced in incredible numbers and became known as the Model T Fords of the ocean.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
German Aviation
Episode 1 - 7-17-2019
The untold secret story of war production that shaped the Second World War, beginning with how the German aviation industry came to dominate the skies of Europe.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
US Aviation
Episode 5 - 8-14-2019
Henry Ford's plan, with the help of Albert Kahn, to build a giant factory in Michigan, covering 3.5million sq ft and including an aircraft production line half a mile in length.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
Occupied Territories
Episode 6 - 8-21-2019
The sabotaging efforts of Peugeot in Nazi-occupied France, where the bosses and workers cooperated with the Resistance to hinder the Nazis' use of military vehicles.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
