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. The Lost Pirate City2020-07-09 · 44mWhat happened to an infamous pirate city in Jamaica? Also, a grim gulag in Croatia and a Louisiana plantation caught up in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
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2. Forbidden Island2020-07-16 · 44mExamining a ghost island once belonging to a secretive country on the fringes of Europe. Also, a haunting site in the UK with evidence of strange burial practices.
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3. Blast Zone2020-07-23 · 44mWithin a dense Polish woodland sits a forgotten complex with an explosive history. Also, grand coastal defences in Ghana reveal a tortured past.
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4. North Of The Wall2020-07-30 · 44mA complex of stone buildings near Hadrian's Wall that were built to keep Northern hoards at bay. Also, a top secret military facility in the American Midwest.
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5. The World's Strangest Disaster Zones2020-08-06 · 1h 29mAn extended special featuring a deserted Caribbean city, an American ghost town still burning and an Arctic settlement facing a terrifying future.
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6. Defenders Of Liberty2020-11-03 · 44mA now silent site that played a pivotal role defending the U.S through the 20th century. Plus, a crumbling Italian fortress and a ghostly Ukrainian mansion.
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7. Space Plane2020-11-10 · 44mA juggernaut of Soviet engineering which was crucial to the international space race. Deserted Scottish coastal defences and a complex that's crucial to American history.
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8. Disaster On The 38th Parallel2020-11-17 · 44mThe mysterious Cachtice Castle home to Elizabeth Bathory, said to have killed over 600 girls and a mysterious structure on the 38th parallel.
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9. Bunker Nation2020-11-24 · 44mA small isolated country littered with strange concrete mushrooms and a secret Japanese facility that was once at the forefront of weapons technology.
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10. The Human Zoo2020-12-01 · 44mA creepy collection of buildings, monuments hidden in a Parisian park and an eerie graveyard of discarded ships strewn along the banks of a mighty river.
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11. Spike Island2020-12-08 · 44mAn impressive compound commandeered and repurposed by a brutal regime and an eerie complex off the coast of Ireland that became the biggest of its kind.
Cast
Tom WardSelf - NarratorImages
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