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Find Me a Classic

"American Car"

Mat Watson sets off to seek out a slice of Americana, a classic car from the USA.

Inside the Mind of a Con Artist

S1, EP2 "Christophe Rocancourt"

Christophe Rocancourt is a French impostor and con artist who scammed rich and powerful people by masquerading in turn as a French nobleman, the heir to the Rockefeller family, or as a Russian prince.

Inside the Mind of a Con Artist

S1, EP1 "Matthew Cox"

Matthew Cox is a former mortgage broker from Florida who found himself on the Secret Service's most wanted list; he made millions falsifying home ownership and mortgage documents for five times the properties' actual worth.

Inside the Mind of a Con Artist

S1, EP3 "Jan Lewan"

Jan Lewan is the polka sensation from Pennsylvania who fleeced millions of investors with his classic Ponzi scheme; his name shot to fame when Netflix produced the movie "Polka King" with actor Jack Black playing Jan Lewan.

Inside the Mind of a Con Artist

S1, EP4 "Frédéric Bourdin"

Nicknamed The Chameleon, Frédéric Bourdin is a former French serial imposter who claims to have faked at least five hundred false identities, including a young Texas boy who went missing in the mid-90s.

Inside the Mind of a Con Artist

S1, EP5 "Shaun Greenhalgh"

Shaun Greenhalgh is a British artist and art forger; between 1989 and 2006, he produced a number of forgeries including Roman and Chinese art objects, and medieval Christian relics, that fooled some of the world's most respected art institutions.

Inside the Mind of a Con Artist

S1, EP6 "Helmut Kiener"

Dubbed the "Mini Madoff," Kiener is one of Germany's greatest con artists, tricking thousands of private investors and banks, including Barclays and JP Morgan, to the tune of more than $300 million.

Inside the Mind of a Con Artist

S1, EP2 "Christophe Rocancourt"

Christophe Rocancourt is a French impostor and con artist who scammed rich and powerful people by masquerading in turn as a French nobleman, the heir to the Rockefeller family, or as a Russian prince.

Wild Australians

S1, EP1 "The Sea Lion King"

From Australia's southwest coast comes the tale of a sea lion pup and the unique animals that share its rugged home.

The Lightbulb Moment

S1, EP11 "Like Button: The Unintended Consenquences of the Facebook Like Button"

When first presented with the like button Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worried that a quick thumbs up or down would discourage more meaningful online interaction but eventually his team changed his mind and transformed the world.

The Lightbulb Moment

S1, EP2 "Cubicle: How the Cubicle Became Universally Hated"

The Cubicle was originally designed to set workers free; a futuristic designer named Robert Propst dreamed up the cubicle as a groovy 1960s workplace utopia that would unleash the modern knowledge worker's vast untapped potential.

The Lightbulb Moment

S1, EP3 "Barcode: How the Barcode Shaped Our Modern Economy"

Barcodes have radically changed global commerce, helping fuel the rise of everything from massive companies like Walmart to world powers like China and it all started with a man daydreaming on a beach in 1949.

The Lightbulb Moment

S1, EP4 "Florida: How Real Estate Rogues Invented Florida as We Know It"

Florida wasn't always the Sunshine State; in the 1920s, an army of real estate boosters set out to redefine Florida from an economic backwater to a ritzy vacation destination, sparking a land boom the likes of which America had never seen before.

The Lightbulb Moment

S1, EP5 "Mauve: The Fake Color That Made Our Modern World"

In 1856, a chemistry student accidentally created a strange substance with a rich purple hue; Mauve takes over the fashion industry, make food look more appetizing, and enable stunning advances in medicine.

The Lightbulb Moment

S1, EP6 "Vanilla: The Bean That Shaped the Future of Food"

In 1841 on the small island of Réunion, a 12-year-old slave did something no one had done before; the vanilla bean takes the world by storm, sparking the artificial flavor revolution and forever changing how we eat.

The Lightbulb Moment

S1, EP1 "The Hollywood Actress That Laid the Groundwork for WiFi"

During WWII, Actress Hedy Lamarr, deemed the world's most beautiful woman, invented a technology that laid the groundwork for the wireless internet of today.

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