American Genius

Season

2015

7.9

TV-PG

Documentaries about great American thinkers, and how their ideas have changed the world.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Jobs vs. Gates

In the 1980s, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs break out in a heated battle to bring the personal computer to the masses.

S1 • E2

Wright Brothers vs. Curtiss

The struggle for performance and technology in the budding aviation industry. Between the Wright Brothers and the Glenn Curtiss.

S1 • E3

Hearst vs. Pulitzer

Covers the struggle between William Hearst and his idol Joseph Pulitzer for control of the publishing industry at the turn of the 18th century.

S1 • E4

Colt vs. Wesson

The invention of the perfect revolver pits Samuel Colt and Daniel Wesson in a race for patents that will forever revolutionize the firearm industry.

S1 • E5

Farnsworth vs. Sarnoff

Outlines the lives of two titan's of the telecommunications industry. Farnsworth who's largely responsible for the invention of the television. And Sarnoff who while running RCA laid the ground work for the television networks of the 21st century.

S1 • E6

Oppenheimer vs Heisenberg

A look at two physicists on opposite sides of the race for the first atomic bomb during World War II.

S1 • E7

Space Race

America and the Soviet Union set out to conquer the moon, but much more than space flight is at stake.

S1 • E8

Edison vs Tesla

Two famous personalities - Edison and Tesla - fight it out for providing the world with Electric power, with the way they think is the future.

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Cast

Jeff Wilburn

Narrator

Benjamin Loeh

Reporter

John S. Howell Sr.

Nicholas Augusta

NASA Scientist

Johnna Leary

New York City Woman

Don Meehan Jr.

Horace Smith

Vince Eisenson

Young Xerox Suit

Will Steckman

Union Soldier

Chaz Riddle

Lab assistant

Jeffrey Wells

Migrant Worker