
Historical and factual series celebrating pivotal moments in history.

As new wing-focused restaurant chains take the recipe out of Buffalo, N.Y., restaurateurs must find a way to cleverly market the new "Buffalo wings" to turn their restaurants into national icons, and chicken wings into a global phenomenon.

A cereal executive's idea to finance the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie kicks-off a candy revolution that produces some of the most iconic, imaginative confections in history.

Two icons compete for America's coffee drinkers and forever change a worldwide, multi-billion-dollar industry.

Eventually challenging America's burger joint heavyweights, two future fast-food kingpins find themselves on a collision course in an all-out chicken sandwich war that is still raging to this day.

Four intrepid food entrepreneurs race to harness emerging technologies, like the home freezer and microwave, to bring revolutionary frozen snack icons to a waiting world, and forever change everything about eating.

A look at some staples of Thanksgiving dinner that weren't around until a few brands used technological advances to reinvent turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and more; food innovators made each part of the meal accessible.

When poliomyelitis swept the nation, thousands died or became disabled before American ingenuity and desperation led to one of history's greatest scientific breakthroughs; witness how polio shaped FDR's vision and made Jonas Salk famous.

In 1941, penicillin was first used to save human life; now, bacteria has emerged resistant to every known antibiotic and scientists have begun to fear that the era of the wonder drugs is near to its end.