Episodes

Australia's Great Emu War: Men With Machine Guns Meet Their Match

The Bungled Battle of Gallipoli: Winston Churchill Sinking the British Navy in an Afternoon!

The Story of Cleopatra: From an Inbred Ptolemaic Family to Empress of Egypt

Nuclear Powerplants: Ultimate Source of Power or Recipe for Disaster?

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871: Did a Cow Really Burn Down the Windy City?

The Great British Bread Baking Show: How to Make Bread in the 1800s and NOT Kill Everyone

Oregon Trail Fire: Is the Journey Really Worth it?

Therac 25: Using Radiation to Kill Cancer... And Patients

Custer's Last Stand

Paul Von Hindenburg: The German Leader Who Couldn't Retire

The 1919 Boston Molasses Flood Fire

Egypt: A Genetic Trainwreck and a Valley of Robbed Kings

The "Demon Core": How One Little Ball of Metal Reeked Havoc on Scientists

Hubble Telescope's Blurry Fiasco: How NASA's Most Famous Telescope Failed on Day 1

King Henry VIII: How a British King Failed at Marriage Six Times in a Row

Salem, We Have a Problem

The Battle of Thermopylae: 300 Spartans VS 150,000 Persians... In a Hallway!

Lead in Gasoline: How One Scientist Changed the World... For the Worst!

How NOT to Make Music: A Masterclass in Musical Trainwrecks (feat. Deja)

Chinese Gunpowder: How to Get an Emperor Into Heaven... In Pieces

The Torrey Canyon Oil Disaster: Being the First to Crash an Oil Tanker Really Sucks

Salmon Rushdie: How One Little Book Cost Rushdie His Eye

Emperor Caligula: When Unlimited Power Goes Tits Up

Terra Nova: Fancy Explorers Turned Into Human Popsicles

Franz Ferdinand: How a Nearly Botched Assassination Plunged the World Into War

Fad Diet with Elara: How Body Image and False Expectations are Starving Girls

King Louis XVI and the French Revolution 

The Transatlantic Telegraph: Breaking, Frying, and Failing Across the Ocean

Napoleon Bonaparte

Killdozer!: A Man and His Bulldozer Vs. Granby

The Vietnam War

The Titanic Sinking: A Middle School Class Gets to the Bottom of What Happened

Thalidomide: Curing Morning Sickness One Birth Defect at a Time 

The Lost Colony of Roanoke: How to Lose a Colony Like a Set of Car Keys

The Byford Dolphin Incident: Saturation Diving and Boiling Bodies Alive Through Decompression 

Willem Barentsz: How a Shortcut to India Left a Dutch Crew Stranded on Ice 

The Dust Bowl: Was the 10 Year Drought an Act of God? Or American Made 

A Holocaust Survivor's Story: Charlotte's Fight to Outsmart the Third Reich... as a Little Girl!

50 Episodes of Failure: The Milestones and Mistakes That Changed Our Lives 

The Panama Canal: 22,000 Lives, Lost Millions, and the Ultimate French Failure

The Donner Party

Movie Busts: How Waterworld Became the Most Expensive Disaster in Hollywood History 

1904 Olympics: Cheating, Chasing Dogs, and Doping With Strychnine 

The Hindenburg Disaster: How to Burn up a Blimp Without a Match! 

Disasters of the Dead: How to Explode a Royal Corpse and Blow up an 80-Ton Whale 

Prohibition

Deep Water Horizon

The Great Depression

Bangladesh Bank Robbery: How Cyber Attackers Tried to Steal $1 Billion 

Flixborough Chemical Fire: How Making Nylon Incinerated a Factory 

Enron's Downfall: How a Fortune 500 Company Implodes 

Bat Bombs of WWII

The Dutchman's Curve Disaster: Tennessee's Deadliest Train Wreck 

France's Ballroom Fire of 1393: Roasting a King Alive

The Iran Contra Scandal

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