Abandoned Engineering (2017)
Ambitious engineering projects that have been left in ruins.
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
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1. Hitler's Army Powerhouse2018-05-08 · 44mA dark past explains why the Pölitz Synthetic Fuel Plant in Northern Poland is now a derelict industrial site littered with tunnels, bunkers and huge crumbling concrete structures
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2. Britain's Sea Fort Complex2018-05-15 · 44mA strange group of rusting structures off the coast of England, a dilapidated mediaeval-style castle in the heart of urban America and one of the biggest machines ever built lying
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3. The Italian Dam Disaster2018-05-22 · 44mAn abandoned concrete wall... five strange deserted structures. A lost escape route from nuclear Armageddon... A submerged link to D-day... Once they were at the cutting edge of de
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4. Battle of Britain Technology Facility2018-05-29 · 44mLearn about the strange-looking, derelict military facilities in Farnborough, which were once wind tunnels that played a vital role in WWII.
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5. The Abandoned Nazi Railway2018-06-05 · 44mThe Canfranc Railway Station is an elaborate abandoned Nazi railway station built near a town of only 500 people in the Pyrenees in Spain. But why was it built there and what secre
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6. America's Jungle City2018-06-12 · 44mThis week, find out why Fordlandia Rubber Town, a symbol of the American dream first established by Henry Ford in the 1920s, is now left rotting in the Amazonian rainforest. Also,
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7. Germany's Lost Warship2018-06-19 · 44mThe Georg Thiele was a technological masterpiece, but it is a shipwreck, lost to the sea in a Norwegian Fjord after running aground during a naval battle in WWII.
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8. Lost Highway in the Rainforest2018-06-26 · 44mA lost highway in the Brazilian jungle, a forgotten bunker system in the French Alps and a man-made island in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. Who built them, and why?
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