Abandoned Engineering

Abandoned Engineering (2017)

Ambitious engineering projects that have been left in ruins.

★ 7.2 TV-PG 44m Documentary

These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.

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Episodes

Season 1Season 2Season 3Season 4Season 5Season 6Season 7Season 8Season 9Season 10Season 11Season 12Season 13Season 14Season 15
  1. 1 1. Silent Cities2017-02-18 · 44mEmpty buildings and infrastructures are full of the echoes of real people and vanished lives, leaving many questions unanswered and mysteries unsolved. We explore the worlds strang
  2. 2 2. Mission: Space2017-02-25 · 44mWe aim for the stars and find out why unwanted battleship guns allow the United States to gain vital information about the borders of space. We ask how the shattered remains of a s
  3. 3 3. Lost Bridges2017-03-21 · 44mSoaring across some of the widest rivers and deepest valleys on the planet, bridges have always been at the cutting edge of engineering. We travel high into the mountains of the Co
  4. 4 4. Ghost Ships2017-03-28 · 44mExploring ship graveyards, including Scapa Flow in Orkney, where German warships were scuttled after the First World War, and Mallows Bay, home to 200 wrecks colonised by wildlife.
  5. 5 5. Quest for Power2017-04-04 · 44mHow Europe's most advanced power station became a film set. Plus, the structures made by scientific pioneer Nikola Tesla in his thwarted quest to prove the US with free electricity
  6. 6 6. Roads to Nowhere2017-04-06 · 44mHear how a crumbling hill in the Peak District and dunes in California caused the closure of two roads. Learn why a route used by the French Resistance shut in 2003.

Cast

Tom WardSelf - Narrator

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