Watch The Engineering That Built the World Full Episodes, Video & More

Race for the Railroad

Aired on Oct 10, 202142m

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 see—an unprecedented railroad that crosses through the wild American continent.

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Liberty Rising

Aired on Oct 17, 202143m

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.

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Road Warriors

Aired on Oct 24, 202143m

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.

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The Panama Canal

Aired on Oct 31, 202143m

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

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Race to the Underground

Aired on Nov 07, 202142m

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.

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Cable Across the Sea

Aired on Nov 14, 202143m

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.

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Battle of the Bridges

Aired on Nov 21, 202143m

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.

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The Hoover Dam

Aired on Nov 21, 202143m

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.