The Engineering That Built the World: Season 1

Race for the Railroad

42min - Two rival rail companies will stop at nothing to best each other while competing to create the most ambitious engineering project the world has ever seen--an unprecedented railroad that crosses through the wild American continent.

Liberty Rising

43min - A little-known 19th Century French artist embarks on an impossible 20-year odyssey to build the tallest statue in the world, and erect it on U.S. soil.

Vägkrigarna

The Panama Canal

43min - Two powerful nations--France and America--compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Kapplöpning mot tunnelbanan

Cable Across the Sea

43min - 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.

Battle of the Bridges

43min - Braving treacherous waters 350 feet deep, gale-force winds and earthquakes, obsessed engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert Hoover battle to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time in San Francisco.

The Hoover Dam

43min - 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.