I Was There

2022 · 22m · TMDB 10.0/10 (1 votes)

Documentary

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About I Was There

An immersive trip back in time, placing host Theo Wilson—the grandson of a Tuskegee Airman with a passion for history—at the center of some of the world’s most impactful events, to deconstruct how they truly unfolded.

Status
Ended
TMDB rating
10.0/10 from 1 votes
Seasons
1
Episodes
12

Seasons and episodes

The latest season with aired episodes is shown first. Specials are kept separate.

Latest aired season

Season 1

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Hindenburg Disaster episode still
S1 E122 min

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.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

Johnstown: America's Deadliest Flood episode still
S1 E222 min

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, along the way discovering how filthy rich steel barons cut corners on maintenance of a nearby dam and laid the groundwork for this epic flood—all because they wanted to fish.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

Chernobyl Disaster episode still
S1 E322 min

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 that will put the lives of millions of Soviet citizens and Europeans in jeopardy. From ground zero, Wilson explores the decisions and cover ups by the Soviets before, during and after the meltdown at the reactor, which still smolders today.

TMDB 9.0/10 from 2 votes

Salem Witch Trials episode still
S1 E422 min

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. Wilson is there to dissect the bizarre, “viral” chain of events that leads the accused to the gallows in a chapter of our history that laid the groundwork for fair trials today.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

The Death of Jesse James episode still
S1 E522 min

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 Jesse James’ career, and charts how a thirst for fame, riches, and revenge led James toward his fated murder by a member of his own gang.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

Killer in the White City episode still
S1 E622 min

Killer in the White City

Theo Wilson travels back in time 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? Theo follows Holmes dark road from conman, to the owner of a fiendishly engineered “murder castle,” where he hunts his victims in the convenient shadow of the World’s Columbian Exposition.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

Lincoln's Assassination episode still
S1 E722 min

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.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

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S1 E822 min

Challenger Disaster

On January 26, 1986, 2.5 million school children watched live as the Challenger space shuttle exploded in the sky, claiming the lives of seven astronauts—including a teacher. With red flags raised in the days before liftoff and multiple chances to stop the ill-fated launch, Theo Wilson is inside the moments that make you wonder, why did Challenger ever take off?

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

Bloody Sunday episode still
S1 E922 min

Bloody Sunday

Theo Wilson time travels to the tension-filled 60s to see how inspirational Civil Rights hero, John Lewis, came to lead a historic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday. Wilson charts Lewis’ career from his first childhood protest, to risking his body and life as a civil rights icon, and the Bloody Sunday march, and how a decision to air it on national TV helped lead to change.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

St. Valentine's Day Massacre episode still
S1 E1022 min

St. Valentine's Day Massacre

It’s 1929 and inside a garage in downtown Chicago, host Theo Wilson witnesses the bloodiest execution in gangland history–the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. But how did Al Capone and a Northside/Southside battle triggered by Americans’ thirst for booze get us here?

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

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S1 E1122 min

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 AM. The catastrophic result of years of planning by domestic terrorist, Timothy McVeigh. Theo investigates the layers of this complicated story, taking us beyond the Ryder box truck carrying the explosives and into the mind of the man who perpetrated one of the most evil acts in American history.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

Battle of Stalingad episode still
S1 E1222 min

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. Bombs explode, concrete rains down and soldiers’ limbs freeze in subzero temperatures as the bloodiest battle in history wages on—and Wilson wants to know, how did the rag tag Russians emerge with a decisive win?

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

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