January 22, 2013 • 4h 40m
Episode one begins with the development of gunpowder by a Chinese alchemist, used for fireworks displays and later military applic...Read more
January 22, 2013 • 4h 40m
The strain between the colonists and the British Parliament, the threat of conflict, and the colonists' stockpiling of arms and am...Read more
January 22, 2013 • 4h 40m
Episode three focuses in on the guns of the North and South, notably the smoothbore muskets on both sides, some converted to percu...Read more
January 22, 2013 • 4h 40m
The 1873 "trapdoor" Springfield is the first focus of episode four. Also noted early is the Gatling gun that, by 1893, was capable...Read more
January 22, 2013 • 4h 40m
Episode five focuses largely on the U.S. weapons of World War I, a war in which American soldiers would first face the devastating...Read more
January 22, 2013 • 4h 40m
Episode six begins with the development of the Thompson .45 caliber submachine gun and its wide usage in prohibition and depressio...Read more
January 22, 2013 • 4h 40m
Two decades after World War II, American forces entered into the Vietnam Conflict and required a new weapon to face a new enemy on...Read more