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Beer Unites America
How We Got Here - S1 - E9
America has plunged into Civil War! If German immigrant Adolphus Busch dies in a deadly standoff, one of the most American products of all time will never exist. The story of Adolphus Busch and the power of beer is the unlikely story of How We Got Here.
How We Got Here: Season 1 - 12 Episode s
1x1 - Nazis Get Us to the Moon
January 6, 2015
Adolf Hitler has just died and the Nazi regime is crumbling. Amidst the chaos, rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun leads a team of colleagues on a daring escape out of Germany. If he doesn't escape, the race for outer space will turn out differently.
1x2 - Cars Win World War II
January 6, 2015
A chance meeting with his personal hero Thomas Edison and a visit to a Chicago meat packing plant give Henry Ford a bold dream destined to profoundly change the world. If he fails to put his inspiration into action, the United States will not win WWII.
1x3 - Gold Makes Headlines
January 13, 2015
George Hearst is on the verge of giving up his dream of striking gold during the '49 gold rush. But if he gives up, his son will never become a newspaper magnet, and Richard Nixon may never be held accountable for his actions in the Watergate scandal.
1x4 - Colt Makes All Men Equal
January 20, 2015
Samuel Colt's invention of the revolver and his use of mass production techniques to build it help drive the industrial revolution in the United States, directly linking him to the United States role as a world superpower.
1x5 - Denim Defeats Communism
January 27, 2015
Dry goods store owner Levi Strauss agrees to finance tailor Jacob Davis' design for overalls with copper rivets. The rivets help make Davis work clothes resistant to tears in the canvas fabric. Strauss patents the design, later switches the material from canvas to denim, and creates Levi's blue jeans, which over time becomes the worldwide symbol of youth and rebellion, including rebellion that leads to the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
1x6 - Morse Code Connects Us All
February 3, 2015
When Samuel Morse receives an urgent message from afar that his wife is about to die, he races back to be by her side. If he makes it to her sickbed in time, the speed-of-light communication we use today will never exist.
1x7 - Clara Barton Saves the World
February 10, 2015
It's September 17, 1862, and The Battle of Antietam rages! Standing right in the thick of the fight is a former schoolteacher with brave purpose - Clara Barton. If she dies, the American Red Cross would not exist.
1x8 - Deep Throat Exposes the Presidency
February 17, 2015
America has plunged into Civil War! If German immigrant Adolphus Busch dies in a deadly standoff, one of the most American products of all time will never exist. The story of Adolphus Busch and the power of beer is the unlikely story of How We Got Here.
1x9 - Beer Unites America
February 24, 2015
America has plunged into Civil War! If German immigrant Adolphus Busch dies in a deadly standoff, one of the most American products of all time will never exist. The story of Adolphus Busch and the power of beer is the unlikely story of How We Got Here.
1x10 - Rockefeller's Oil Empire
March 9, 2015
A twenty-four year old bookkeeper, John D Rockefeller, is about to bet every penny he has on a fledgling upstart industry. If the accountant is wrong about the budding oil industry, the era of the automobile might not take off.
1x11 - Steel Builds the Metropolis
March 3, 2015
A telegraph operator is in the throws of a crisis situation! The trains along the Pennsylvania Railroad line have stopped and his boss can't be found. What Andrew Carnegie does next will either end his career or put him on a path to change the world.
1x12 - Harley Hogs the Road
March 17, 2015
Two young frustrated mechanics in Milwaukie have an idea - to put an engine inside of a bicycle frame. If William Harley and Arthur Davidson give up now, the motorcycle as we know it will never exist.