Quan el director d'una important empresa se suïcida, tots els accionistes es posen d'acord i elaboren un pla per obtenir els beneficis més grans possibles: es tracta de posar al capdavant del consell de direcció algú fàcilment manipulable. Tot sembla senzill fins que entra en escena Amy Archer.
Morgan Sullivan és un comptable en l'atur atrapat per un matrimoni sense futur i amb un sol somni: deixar endarrere la seva pesada existència per embarcar-se en una vida de llibertat i emocions. Cercant una sortida a una vida tan poc brillant i per escapar de la seva dominant esposa, decideix incorporar-se a la multinacional Digicorp i convertir-se en un espia industrial. Adoptant una nova identitat, és enviat a espiar a distintes convencions empresarials on haurà de recollir, en secret, tots els detalls i transmetre'ls a Ed Finster el seu malvat cap. Però en el transcurs d'una de les seves missions, Morgan coneix a la bella i esvarosa Rita, la qual li revelarà les vertaderes activitats de Digicorp.
Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain to reveal the secrets behind production on an epic scale.
The stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as well as the inventors including Nikola Tesla, William Harley, Alexander Graham Bell, Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker.
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from 4 September 2003 to 16 October 2003 on BBC. The programme examines seven engineering feats that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.
Britain is connected by miles of roads, canals, and railway. This series explores the history of how we get around this ancient island.
Tony Robinson goes for a walk through some of Britain's beautiful and historic landscapes.
Half-hour program on the "real-life adventure" of big business. Newsman Eric Sevareid, who served as host, described the series as neither "chamber of commerce boosterism" nor anti-establishment; rather, "an effort to report how various industrial sectors actually work."
In just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. Captains of industry built empires through innovation, ingenuity, determination, and sheer ruthlessness, while the labor of millions of working men and women -- most of them immigrants from Ireland and Northern Europe -- helped reinvent the way America did business.
The birth and development of the Industrial Revolution is explored by visiting factories, mines, and other industrial relics where the modern world was made -- not by statesmen and philosophers, but by men, women and children with dirt on their hands.
