1844-1919

Learn how this son of German immigrants from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, turned his small food-packaging company into a booming business known for its fair treatment of workers and pioneering safe food preparation standards.

Discusses the childhood and early life of Henry John Heinz and traces the development of his business, H.J. Heinz Company.

A portrait of the long and turbulent marriage of one of history's most famous couples, the great Russian author Leo Tolstoy and his wife, Sonya.

Introduces the life of H. J. Heinz, who started one of the first companies to make processed food, buying his brothers' food company and renamed it the H.J. Heinz Company in 1888.