When JD and Kent discover there's a shortage of beeswax for their surfboards, it leads to the discovery that all the local honeybees have vanished from the beehives.

Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan, whose daughter Anne takes a more than casual interest...

Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.

The story of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, focusing on their friendship and inventions. -- Both Thomas Edison and Henry Ford started off as insatiably curious tinkerers. That curiosity led them to become inventors with very different results. As Edison invented hit after commercial hit, gaining fame and fortune, Henry struggled to make a single invention (an affordable car) work. Witnessing Thomas's glorious career from afar, a frustrated Henry wondered...

Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.

"The third episode chronicles the history of New York during the giddy decades following the Civil War--what Mark Twain called "the Gilded Age." During this period, New York grows at a staggering rate--demographically, geographically, and financially--building on its position as the commerical and cultural capital of America to become the headquarters of an entirely new corporate economy. Along the way, the city takes on enormous physical challenges...