The Engineering That Built the World
From the Statue of Liberty to the Panama Canal and beyond, this series sheds light on the iconic structures and engineering feats that have shaped and defined our nation and our world.
Race for the Railroad
Two rival rail companies compete to create the most ambitious engineering project the world has ever seen, an unprecedented railway that crosses the American continent.
Liberty Rising
A little-known 19th-century French artist embarks on an impossible 20-year odyssey to build the tallest statue in the world and erects it on US soil.
Road Warriors
Two master roadbuilders spend decades struggling to create a highway system that connects every city and town in America that becomes the greatest public works project in history.
The Panama Canal
Two nations - France and America - compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; completing it will require overcoming every…
Race to the Underground
After the London Underground becomes the first subway system in the world, visionary engineers in New York and Boston try to build the first one in America.
Cable Across The Sea
Two brave visionaries endure failure and heartache a century before the internet while risking everything to connect the United States to the rest of the world with a cable under…
Battle of the Bridges
Engineer Joseph Strauss and US President Herbert Hoover battle side by side to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time - the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge…
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 to bring much-needed water to the arid…
