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Man, Moment, Machine

2005 - 2007

Hunting Bonnie and Clyde

9th August 2005
Episode 1
An episode about Bonnie and Clyde Barrow use of the BAR machine gun to rob banks during the Great Depression.

The Great Sub Rescue

16th August 2005
Episode 2
No overview available.

Doolittle's Daring Raid

23rd August 2005
Episode 3
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

30th August 2005
Episode 4
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

6th September 2005
Episode 5
No overview available.

Mine Rescue Mask

13th September 2005
Episode 6
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

20th September 2005
Episode 7
No overview available.

Thomas Edison and the Electric Chair

27th September 2005
Episode 8
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

4th October 2005
Episode 9
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.

11th October 2005
Episode 10
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

18th October 2005
Episode 11
No overview available.

Dambuster: WWII's Bouncing Bomb

25th October 2005
Episode 12
No overview available.

25,000 Miles Non-Stop: Voyager Spacecraft

1st November 2005
Episode 13
No overview available.

Sikorsky and the Rescue Chopper

8th November 2005
Episode 14
No overview available.
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Man, Moment, Machine was a television series which aired on The History Channel and was hosted by Hunter Ellis. It documented an important event in history and went into detail about, as the title suggests, the man and his background, the machine and how it was made, and the outcome.

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