Man, Moment, Machine - Season 1

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Hunting Bonnie and Clyde

1 - Hunting Bonnie and Clyde

Air Date: August 9, 2005

An episode about Bonnie and Clyde Barrow use of the BAR machine gun to rob banks during the Great Depression.

The Great Sub Rescue

2 - The Great Sub Rescue

Air Date: August 16, 2005

Doolittle's Daring Raid

3 - Doolittle's Daring Raid

Air Date: August 23, 2005

Recalling Doolittle's Raid on Tokyo in 1942, when a squadron of B-25 bombers made a retaliatory attack headed by Lt. Col. James Doolittle.

Stormin' Norman and the Abrams Tank

4 - Stormin' Norman and the Abrams Tank

Air Date: August 30, 2005

General Norman Schwarzkopf uses the M1A1 Abrams tank to liberate the Kuwaitis in just 100 hours in the "Mother of all battles" against the elite Republican Guard in Kuwait.

Shot Down: The U-2 Spyplane

5 - Shot Down: The U-2 Spyplane

Air Date: September 6, 2005

Mine Rescue Mask

6 - Mine Rescue Mask

Air Date: September 13, 2005

An episode dealing with the African American Inventor Garrett Morgan and his patented Morgan Safety Mask. His invention rose to prominence in 1916, when it was used to rescue 32 men in a collapsed tunnel underneath Lake Erie, and eventually became the basis for Air Rescue and Safety Masks used by the Military and Civilians alike.

Wernher von Braun and the V2 Rocket

7 - Wernher von Braun and the V2 Rocket

Air Date: September 20, 2005

Thomas Edison and the Electric Chair

8 - Thomas Edison and the Electric Chair

Air Date: September 27, 2005

This episode explores the intersection between the invention of the electric chair, its significant moment in history, and its inventor Thomas Edison.

Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose

9 - Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose

Air Date: October 4, 2005

Howard Hughes takes on the challenge to build an enormous flying boat capable of airlifting 750 troops and war materiel as heavy as tanks across the Atlantic Ocean in support of the Allied war effort, thus avoiding the threat of German U-boats. The project becomes the focus of Hughes OCD. Even after the project is canceled by the military his company successfully builds and Hughes personally flies the prototype dubbed by its detractors as the spruce goose.

Ultimate Weapon: Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb.

10 - Ultimate Weapon: Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb.

Air Date: October 11, 2005

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Father of the A-bomb, creates the world's deadliest weapon of mass destruction--with the "power of 1,000 suns" it can annihilate tens of thousands in a moment. His scientific brilliance is the power behind the atom bombs used against the Japanese during WWII, but his conscience led him to question the invention that helped end the war. Watch as Oppenheimer paces anxiously in New Mexico while the crew on a B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, deploys the massive "Little Boy" bomb towards the Aioi Bridge in Hiroshima. The resulting massive loss of life leads Oppenheimer to rethink the way in which nuclear energy was to be used.

The Higgins Landing Craft

11 - The Higgins Landing Craft

Air Date: October 18, 2005

Dambuster: WWII's Bouncing Bomb

12 - Dambuster: WWII's Bouncing Bomb

Air Date: October 25, 2005

25,000 Miles Non-Stop: Voyager Spacecraft

13 - 25,000 Miles Non-Stop: Voyager Spacecraft

Air Date: November 1, 2005

Sikorsky and the Rescue Chopper

14 - Sikorsky and the Rescue Chopper

Air Date: November 8, 2005