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The Engineering That Built the World

Season 1
Discover the iconic engineering feats that have shaped our world.
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  1. S1 E1 - Race for the Railroad
    October 9, 2021
    43min
    TV-14
    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.
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  2. S1 E2 - Liberty Rising
    October 16, 2021
    43min
    TV-PG
    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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  3. S1 E3 - Road Warriors
    October 23, 2021
    43min
    TV-PG
    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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  4. S1 E4 - The Panama Canal
    October 30, 2021
    43min
    TV-PG
    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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  5. S1 E5 - Race to the Underground
    November 6, 2021
    43min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  6. S1 E6 - Cable Across the Sea
    November 13, 2021
    43min
    TV-PG
    A century before the Internet, two brave visionaries, Collin Perry and Cyrus Field, endure failure and heartache while risking everything to connect the the world with a cable under the ocean.
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  7. S1 E7 - Battle of the Bridges
    November 20, 2021
    43min
    TV-PG
    Obsessed engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert Hoover battle to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time in San Francisco: The Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge.
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  8. S1 E8 - The Hoover Dam
    November 20, 2021
    43min
    TV-PG
    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.
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