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Telling the story of a group of rival engineers who created the most transformative invention of the 20th century, this docuseries explores over a century of innovation from Honda, Toyota, Mercedes, Ford, Porsche, Rolls Royce and more.
Frustrated by the limitations of transport, rival engineers Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler set out to liberate humanity from their dependence on the horse.
As early car-makers gained traction with their inventions, the outbreak of the First World War One catapulted the industry into a new era of competition.
As the roaring twenties brought cars to the masses in America, Europe lagged far behind, and Japan struggled to modernise. Changes came with the Second World War.
In the 1950s America entered a golden age of car design, while German and Japanese car makers struggled to recover from the Second World War.
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Self - Professor of History, University of Texas
James May takes a look at the 'peoples car'. Covering every form of cars for the masses - from the Beetle to the Kei Car, May looks at the many forms of people's car, their origins and their effect on history. Each episode covers a particular theme; these being cars from dictatorships, microcars and the dream cars we aspire to.
Across the US, millions of project cars lay unfinished up on blocks or under tarps. Dan Brockett, Shea Seefeldt and Aaron Parker are on a mission to rescue those broken cars. And they won't just finish them, but they'll redeem them. These guys have about a week to get them across the finish line, whether it's on a track, down a dragstrip or up a mountain.
Our cities, transformed a mere century ago to accommodate cars, now want to rid their streets of them. Countries go to war over fuel shortages, and automobiles are at the core of a global ecological crisis. Today, the history of automobile has hit its climax. How did we get here? How did the invention of a single machine reorganize how we work, revolutionize our lifestyles, transform our landscapes, trigger global crises and wreak havoc with the equilibrium of our planet? This documentary series explores the creation and meteoric development of an unprecedented object - the automobile - and its role in mankind’s wild race toward progress.
