Name: I Was There Season 1
Genre: History
Released: 2022

S01 Episode 1

Hindenburg Disaster

Theo Wilson travels back in time to 1937, finding himself aboard the world's most luxurious airship, the Hindenburg, where he must solve the mystery of what leads to its fiery fall from the sky--the first epic disaster ever caught on moving film.

21 mins · Sun, 20 Feb 2022

S01 Episode 2

Johnstown: America's Deadliest Flood

Theo Wilson time-travels back to 1889 to the bucolic river shores of Johnstown, Pennsylvania where the biggest flood in U.S. history is about to be unleashed. Wilson finds himself dissecting the disaster.

21 mins · Mon, 21 Feb 2022

S01 Episode 3

Chernobyl Disaster

Theo Wilson time-travels to Russia on April 26th, 1986, as workers at the Chernobyl nuclear plant are in the throes of a disaster.

21 mins · Mon, 28 Feb 2022

S01 Episode 4

Salem Witch Trials

Theo Wilson travels back in time to Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 where the village is self-destructing over allegations of witchcraft amongst dozens of its citizens.

21 mins · Mon, 7 Mar 2022

S01 Episode 5

The Death of Jesse James

Theo Wilson time-travels to the mid-1800s where he finds a young man named Jesse James on the path toward becoming America's most infamous outlaw. Wilson separates myth from reality in James' career.

21 mins · Mon, 14 Mar 2022

S01 Episode 6

Killer In The White City

Theo Wilson time-travels to 1893 Chicago, finding himself in the lair of America's first famous serial killer, H.H. Holmes. But how did Holmes become such a prolific murderer?

21 mins · Mon, 21 Mar 2022

S01 Episode 7

Lincoln's Assassination

Theo Wilson time travels to 1865 and immerses himself in the events that lead John Wilkes Booth to hatch a plan to kill President Abraham Lincoln.

21 mins · Mon, 28 Mar 2022

S01 Episode 8

Challenger Disaster

With an audience of 2.5 million school children, the Challenger exploded in the sky, taking the lives of seven astronauts; with red flags and multiple chances to stop it, exploring why the Challenger ever took off.

21 mins · Mon, 11 Apr 2022

S01 Episode 9

Bloody Sunday

How John Lewis led the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday.

21 mins · Mon, 18 Apr 2022

S01 Episode 10

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

Al Capone and a turf war triggered by American thirst for liquor turns into the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, which was a bloody execution in a garage in downtown Chicago in 1929.

21 mins · Mon, 25 Apr 2022

S01 Episode 11

Oklahoma City Bombing

Theo Wilson travels back in time to April 19, 1995, when Oklahoma City is rocked by a two-ton fertilizer bomb shortly after 9 a.m. ; Theo investigates the layers of this complicated story.

21 mins · Mon, 2 May 2022

S01 Episode 12

Battle of Stalingad

Theo Wilson time-travels to the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, where the underdog Russian army is about to pull off a victory that will turn the tide of the war in favor of Allied forces.

21 mins · Mon, 9 May 2022

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