The Engineering That Built the World ambient background
CinebyCineby
The Engineering That Built the World backdrop

The Engineering That Built the World

The Engineering That Built the World
★ 6.4/10•2021•43m•Documentary
Similars

The stories behind the iconic structures and engineering feats that have shaped and defined our nation and our world.

StatusEnded
Runtime43m
LanguageEN
First Air DateOct 10, 2021

Episodes

Episode 1 - Race for the RailroadE163m

Race for the Railroad

Two 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.

Oct 10, 2021

Episode 2 - Liberty RisingE263m

Liberty Rising

A 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.

Oct 17, 2021

Episode 3 - Road WarriorsE363m

Road Warriors

Two 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.

Oct 24, 2021

Episode 4 - The Panama CanalE4

The Panama Canal

Two 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.

Oct 31, 2021

Episode 5 - Race to the UndergroundE563m

Race to the Underground

After 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.

Nov 7, 2021

Episode 6 - Cable Across the SeaE660m

Cable Across the Sea

A 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.

Nov 14, 2021

Episode 7 - Battle of the BridgesE7

Battle of the Bridges

Braving 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.

Nov 21, 2021

Episode 8 - The Hoover DamE862m

The Hoover Dam

A 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.

Nov 21, 2021

Actors

Ian Karr

Self - Narrator

Recommendations

How Do They Do It?
Modern Marvels
Mysteries at the Museum
Antiques Roadshow
World War II with Tom Hanks
Top Gear
History 101
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Marvel's 616
Antiques Roadshow
How It's Made
30 for 30
Top Gear
MegaStructures
James May's Cars of the People
The World According to Jeff Goldblum
Last Chance U
The Movies
Doctor Who Confidential
The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy

Similars

James May's Things You Need To Know
This Is Mark Rober
Engineering Repurposed
Shipping the World
Roman Engineering
Paddington Station 24/7
Full Steam Ahead
Abandoned Engineering
Sydney's Super Tunnel
Railroad Australia
Megatrains
Combat Trains
Auf schmaler Spur durch Indien
Traumhafte Bahnstrecken der Schweiz
Submarines
Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways
The Motorbike Show
Minna-no Tetsudo
Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways
The Tube: Going Underground