Abandoned Engineering(2017)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2017-02-18
Average Runtime: 44m
Rating: 7.3
Votes: 15
Seasons: 15
Episodes: 145
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.
Keywords
engineeringarchitecture history
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Series 1
Episodes: 6E01
Silent Cities
Air Date: 2017-02-18
Empty buildings and infrastructures are full of the echoes of real people and vanished lives, leaving many questions ...
E02
Mission: Space
Air Date: 2017-02-25
We aim for the stars and find out why unwanted battleship guns allow the United States to gain vital information abou...
E03
Lost Bridges
Air Date: 2017-03-21
Soaring across some of the widest rivers and deepest valleys on the planet, bridges have always been at the cutting e...
E04
Ghost Ships
Air Date: 2017-03-28
Exploring ship graveyards, including Scapa Flow in Orkney, where German warships were scuttled after the First World ...
E05
Quest for Power
Air Date: 2017-04-04
How Europe's most advanced power station became a film set. Plus, the structures made by scientific pioneer Nikola Te...
E06
Roads to Nowhere
Air Date: 2017-04-06
Hear how a crumbling hill in the Peak District and dunes in California caused the closure of two roads. Learn why a r...
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