Series
The Engineering That Built the World
Documentary
The stories behind the iconic structures and engineering feats that have shaped and defined our nation and our world.
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Seasons & episodes
1Race for the Railroad10 Oct 2021 · 63m · ★ 9.0Two rival rail companies, led by Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific and Thomas Durant of the Union Pacific, stop at nothing to best each other.
2Liberty Rising17 Oct 2021 · 63m · ★ 8.0A little-known 19th-century French artist embarks on a 20-year odyssey to build the tallest statue in the world and erect it on U.S. soil.
3Road Warriors24 Oct 2021 · 63m · ★ 8.0Two master roadbuilders spend decades struggling to create a highway system that connects every city and town in America. It will be the greatest public works project in history--more expensive than two thousand Hoover Dams, three times longer than the Great Wall of China, and with enough pavement for three round trips to the moon.
4The Panama Canal31 Oct 2021Two powerful nations--France and America--compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Completing it will cost 30 thousand lives, $600 million dollars, and require overcoming every obstacle imaginable--from mudslides to malaria to bankruptcy.
5Race to the Underground7 Nov 2021 · 63m · ★ 8.0After the London Underground becomes the first subway system in the world, visionary engineers in New York and Boston vie to build the first one in America. But being first will mean overcoming unprecedented engineering challenges, deadly accidents, fierce political infighting, and the public's fear of the underground. When the dust settles, the American city will never be the same.
6Cable Across the Sea14 Nov 2021 · 60m · ★ 8.0A century before the Internet, two brave visionaries, Collin Perry and Cyrus Field, endure failure and heartache while risking everything to connect the United States to the rest of the world with a cable under the ocean.
7Battle of the Bridges21 Nov 2021Braving treacherous waters 350 feet deep, gale-force winds and earthquakes, obsessed engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert Hoover battle side by side to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time in San Francisco: The Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge.
8The Hoover Dam21 Nov 2021 · 62m · ★ 9.0A hard-driving engineer with a reputation for excellence is on a quest to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States, bringing much needed water to the arid American West. He'll struggle with a disgruntled workforce, hellish conditions, and nearly insurmountable engineering challenges, but when it's done, the Hoover Dam will be as tall as a 60-story building, requiring more material than the Great Pyramid, and with enough concrete to circle the equator.
Details
- First aired
- 10 Oct 2021
- Last aired
- 21 Nov 2021
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- History
- Episodes
- 8
- Votes
- 5 on TMDB
Where to watch (US)
Philo
HISTORY Vault Apple TV channel
HISTORY Vault Amazon Channel
History
Spectrum On Demand
The Roku Channel
Tubi TV
Cast
- IIan KarrSelf - Narrator
