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The Mega-Brands That Built America - Season 4

Series: Mega-Brands That Built America
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Episodes
6
Rating
TVPG
Year
2026
Language
English
Publisher
History

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"The Mega-Brands That Built America" delves into the surprising origin stories of the trailblazing founders behind some of the world's biggest brands. This nonfiction series offers a vivid portrayal of the visionaries whose brilliance, tenacity, and fearl

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Episodes

1. Road Warriors

43m

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During WWII, a struggling automaker and Detroit's industry titan race to build a revolutionary all-purpose military vehicle, then spend decades battling to reinvent their wartime creation into America's most popular type of car: the SUV.

2. The Game Makers

43m

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Mark Goodson and Merv Griffin wage a three-decades battle to reinvent the television game show, creating iconic franchises with spinning wheels, buzzers, and catchphrases that become ingrained in American culture.

3. Ideas That Stick

43m

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A husband's homemade bandage, a college dropout's breakthrough adhesive, and a factory worker's wartime fix transform simple strips of tape into indispensable American icons - creating a $90 billion industry, one sticky invention at a time.

4. Racing to the Top

43m

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A down-on-his-luck mechanic transforms outlaw moonshine racing into one of America's biggest spectator sports, overcoming powerful rivals, deadly setbacks, and financial crises to build a billion-dollar sports empire.

5. The Underwear Boom

43m

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P.H. Hanes sparks a revolution in American underwear, but rivals answer with breakthrough designs, bold branding, and a wartime windfall-transforming an unmentionable necessity into a $100 billion global industry.

6. Rise of the Personal Computer

42m

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A pair of garage tinkerers, a copier company's secret lab, and a college-dropout programmer spark a decades-long battle for the future of computing - shrinking the computer from a room-sized machine to the device billions carry every day.

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