Superstructures of the World

All Episodes 1997 - 2000

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  • 1997-11-08T05:00:00Z
  • 45m
  • 4h 13m (5 episodes)
  • United States
  • Documentary
The Super Structures documentary specials celebrate the world's most spectacular engineering challenges and monumental construction projects. The series features the Eurotunnel, the International Space Station, the Panama Canal and many more fascinating structures around the world.

16 episodes

Series Premiere

1x01 Grassburg Mine

Series Premiere

1x01 Grassburg Mine

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At 14,000 feet, in the remote jungles of New Guinea is the largest gold and copper deposit in the world. Getting to that deposit and building a profitable mine was one of the biggest engineering challenges ever.

International Space Station is one of the largest projects ever conceived and will take 45 space missions to provide the materials necessary to build the station.

The Kansai International Airport is just that - an island built to provide the space for an airport - an engineering marvel.

1x04 London Underground

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London Underground, a system of rail lines, is still growing through the present day with the latest line expected to carry an incredible 30,000 people per hour in each direction!

NORAD: Cheyenne Mountain is an incredible 4.5 acre compound center that monitors the skies for unidentified aircraft, missile launches, space objects and even falling space debris.

1x06 Panama Canal

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Deep in the jungles of Central America, man has battled nature to build an engineering marvel. Its epic story continues to astonish us.

1997-11-08T05:00:00Z

1x07 Skyscrapers

1x07 Skyscrapers

  • 1997-11-08T05:00:00Z52m

Malaysia's Petronas Twin Towers and Chicago's Sears Tower are the focus in this fascinating history of these marvels of engineering.

1997-11-09T05:00:00Z

1x08 Eurotunnel

1x08 Eurotunnel

  • 1997-11-09T05:00:00Z52m

Eurotunnel paints a vivid and exciting portrait of human ingenuity and the unflagging nature of mankind's pioneering spirit.

1997-11-09T05:00:00Z

1x09 Seawolf

1x09 Seawolf

  • 1997-11-09T05:00:00Z52m

Called "the most complex military machine of the 20th Century," the $2.3 billion Seawolf submarine is a prototype for the U.S. Navy's undersea future.

1x10 Snowy River

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This edition features the Snowy River Dam in New South Wales, Australia.

2000-04-14T04:00:00Z

1x11 Hibernia

1x11 Hibernia

  • 2000-04-14T04:00:00Z52m

The Hibernia platform has three separate components: Topsides, Gravity Base Structure (GBS),Offshore Loading System (OLS).

1x13 Anatov 225

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1998-07-09T04:00:00Z

1x16 747

1x16 747

  • 1998-07-09T04:00:00Z45m

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