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Richard Hammond's Big

Season 1
Richard Hammond explores the engineering and structural secrets behind the world's most massive man-made marvels. Richard searches out the seriously supersized and gets hands on as he climbs, flies and drives these engineering giants.
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  1. S1 E1 - Volkswagen Mega Factory
    February 11, 2020
    44min
    TV-PG
    Richard Hammond goes behind the scenes at the biggest car factory in the world, where workers use cutting-edge engineering and the latest technology to build a new car every 16 seconds.
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  2. S1 E2 - US Air Force Super Plane
    February 18, 2020
    44min
    TV-PG
    Richard Hammond climbs aboard the US Air Force's biggest cargo plane, an airborne behemoth that uses cutting-edge engineering and the latest technology to fly vital equipment and heavy-duty military vehicles across the planet.
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  3. S1 E3 - Monster Ship Confidential
    February 25, 2020
    44min
    TV-PG
    Richard Hammond joins the crew of one of the biggest ships on earth, a monster cargo vessel that uses cutting-edge engineering and the latest tech to deliver vital materials on a non-stop 28,000-mile voyage.
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  4. S1 E4 - World's Tallest Building
    March 3, 2020
    44min
    TV-PG
    Richard Hammond goes behind the scenes at the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building on the planet, to reveal how cutting-edge engineering keeps this record-breaking, 2,722-foot-tall skyscraper standing straight in precarious desert sands.
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  5. S1 E5 - World's Greatest Football Stadium
    March 10, 2020
    44min
    TV-PG
    Richard Hammond goes behind the scenes of a new, ground-breaking football stadium to uncover how hi-tech engineering created a cutting-edge innovation: a retractable soccer field that rolls back to reveal a world-first NFL field.
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  6. S1 E6 - Mega Oil Platform
    March 17, 2020
    44min
    TV-PG
    Richard Hammond travels to one of the most remote places on the planet: a giant oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. His special access reveals the cutting-edge engineering behind this hi-tech facility and its record-breaking drills.
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  7. S1 E7 - Monster Dam
    March 31, 2020
    44min
    TV-PG
    Richard Hammond meets the engineering team that runs one of the biggest dams on earth, a cutting-edge behemoth that uses the latest technology to withstand the weight of 200-million tons of water and power an entire city.
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  8. S1 E8 - World's Greatest Tunnel
    April 7, 2020
    44min
    TV-PG
    Richard Hammond goes behind the scenes of the world's longest underground railway connection to uncover how hi-tech equipment helps engineers blast through solid rock to create a cutting-edge train line over a mile beneath the earth's surface.
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  9. S1 E9 - World's Biggest Machines
    July 2, 2020
    44min
    TV-PG
    Richard Hammond investigates the cutting-edge machine technology that makes the world's biggest engineering projects possible and, with special inside access, he reveals what it takes to operate this hi-tech equipment.
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Richard Hammond
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