List of episodes of the series «The Engineering That Built the World»

Race for the Railroad

• Episode number: 1
• Episode duration: 63 min.
• Episode description:
  Two rival rail companies, led by Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific and Thomas Durant of the Union Pacific, stop at nothing to best each other.

Liberty Rising

• Episode number: 2
• Episode duration: 63 min.
• Episode description:
  A little-known 19th-century French artist embarks on a 20-year odyssey to build the tallest statue in the world and erect it on U.S. soil.

Road Warriors

• Episode number: 3
• Episode duration: 63 min.
• Episode description:
  Two master roadbuilders spend decades struggling to create a highway system that connects every city and town in America. It will be the greatest public works project in history--more expensive than two thousand Hoover Dams, three times longer than the Great Wall of China, and with enough pavement for three round trips to the moon.

The Panama Canal

• Episode number: 4
• Episode description:
  Two powerful nations--France and America--compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Completing it will cost 30 thousand lives, $600 million dollars, and require overcoming every obstacle imaginable--from mudslides to malaria to bankruptcy.

Race to the Underground

• Episode number: 5
• Episode duration: 63 min.
• Episode description:
  After the London Underground becomes the first subway system in the world, visionary engineers in New York and Boston vie to build the first one in America. But being first will mean overcoming unprecedented engineering challenges, deadly accidents, fierce political infighting, and the public's fear of the underground. When the dust settles, the American city will never be the same.

Cable Across the Sea

• Episode number: 6
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  A century before the Internet, two brave visionaries, Collin Perry and Cyrus Field, endure failure and heartache while risking everything to connect the United States to the rest of the world with a cable under the ocean.

Battle of the Bridges

• Episode number: 7
• Episode description:
  Braving treacherous waters 350 feet deep, gale-force winds and earthquakes, obsessed engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert Hoover battle side by side to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time in San Francisco: The Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge.

The Hoover Dam

• Episode number: 8
• Episode duration: 62 min.
• Episode description:
  A hard-driving engineer with a reputation for excellence is on a quest to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States, bringing much needed water to the arid American West. He'll struggle with a disgruntled workforce, hellish conditions, and nearly insurmountable engineering challenges, but when it's done, the Hoover Dam will be as tall as a 60-story building, requiring more material than the Great Pyramid, and with enough concrete to circle the equator.