The Machines That Built America (Season 1)

"The Machines That Built America" (2021) is a History Channel documentary series you can watch online on iFILM. Each episode digs into one invention — telephone, radio, motorcycle, aircraft, power tool — and the relentless character behind it.

Nikola Tesla fought Edison for the future of electricity. William Harley nailed together his first bike in a backyard shed. Alexander Graham Bell raced a patent rival to the same finish line. The series frames these rivalries as American creation myths: obsessive men who bet everything on an idea before markets even existed. Stream "The Machines That Built America" (2021) on iFILM.