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8 episodes
1. Race for the Railroad

1. Race for the Railroad
Two rival rail companies will stop at nothing to best each other while competing to create the most ambitious engineering project the world has ever seen.
43min
Oct 9, 2021
2. Liberty Rising

2. Liberty Rising
A little-known 19th Century French artist embarks on an impossible 20-year odyssey to build the tallest statue in the world, and erect it on U.S. soil.
43min
Oct 16, 2021
3. Road Warriors

3. Road Warriors
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.
43min
Oct 23, 2021
4. The Panama Canal

4. The Panama Canal
Two powerful nations-France and America-compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
43min
Oct 30, 2021
5. Race to the Underground

5. Race to the Underground
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.
43min
Nov 6, 2021
6. Cable Across the Sea

6. Cable Across the Sea
A century before the Internet, two brave visionaries, Collin Perry and Cyrus Field, endure failure and heartache while risking everything to connect the the world with a cable under the ocean.
43min
Nov 13, 2021
7. Battle of the Bridges

7. Battle of the Bridges
Obsessed engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert Hoover battle to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time in San Francisco: The Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge.
43min
Nov 20, 2021
8. The Hoover Dam

8. The Hoover Dam
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.
43min
Nov 20, 2021















