The untold secret story of war production that shaped the Second World War, beginning with how the G...

The story behind the Krupp company, who were responsible for the manufacture of two of Germany's mos...

The role played by engineering giant Vickers during the Second World War, including the development...

How the Americans, once they were provoked into war, out-produced the rest of the world so quickly a...

Henry Ford's plan, with the help of Albert Kahn, to build a giant factory in Michigan, covering 3.5m...

The sabotaging efforts of Peugeot in Nazi-occupied France, where the bosses and workers cooperated w...

The story of America's `Liberty Ships', which were produced in incredible numbers and became known a...

The remarkable story of how Stalin's massive war factories were dismantled and moved east on one and...

The story of the discovery and exploitation of the Baku Oilfields in the Russian Caucasus, which for...

Fiat didn't just make cars: they made trains, they made planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they...

While America had Ford or Chrysler or Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his natio...

The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories.

Japan would create arguably the greatest fighter in WW2 - the Mitsubishi Zero. But their failed War...

How the Lancaster factory, one of the biggest buildings in Europe at the time, helped to create a tr...

Long before Henry Ford, Samuel Colt was the true father of mass production. Ironically, it was the i...

The First World War led to a number of astounding war factories, which laid the foundations and pave...

The Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster and Wellington bombers, aircraft that undoubtedly won the Battle...

When people think of Skoda, they think of cheap and efficient family cars. As early as the 1930s, th...

Ferdinand Porsche was one of the most influential engineers in Nazi Germany.

For the germans, the truck became the secret weapon that changed warfare. From the mountain passes o...

This episode looks at the the invention of the machine gun, and how weapon that changed the art of w...

The story of the rise of the aircraft carrier and how it changed the tactics of sea warfare.