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Supersize Structures

Season 1
Many of mankindrsquos ideas to build big seem impossible Its an inescapable aspect of progress things just keep getting bigger This is the story of dams highways bridges and buildings that have transformed cities and even countries This riveting series explores a hundred years of engineering the biggest heaviest tallest structures and looks at what was supersized 10 or even 100 years ago
20166 episodesTV-14
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Living Big

    March 9, 2016
    53min
    TV-14
    Explore the tallest towers the biggest palaces the grandest tombs and ancient temples that were forgotten for centuries This episode shows how technique technology and ambition have developed some of the most magnificent structures in the world
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  2. S1 E2 - Traveling Big

    March 9, 2016
    53min
    TV-14
    The human race is constantly looking for a better way to get from point a to point b from tall ships to the invention of the automobile travel has always been a necessity We rely on increasingly massive transportation like plains trains ships and everything in between
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  3. S1 E3 - Building Big

    March 9, 2016
    49min
    TV-14
    People have labored on some gigantic undertakings such as roads bridges and canals that link oceans these feats of engineering have allowed cities to grow but now they are also allowing us to travel into space
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  4. S1 E4 - Battling Big

    March 9, 2016
    51min
    TV-14
    For as long as man has been alive he has fought to defend what is rightfully his and fought even harder to take what is not He soon figured out the man with the biggest weapon has the advantage
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  5. S1 E5 - Moving Big

    March 9, 2016
    52min
    TV-14
    People arent the only ones that need to travel Our way of life has always relied on the transportation of cargo freight and raw materials Transport has needed to evolve to keep up with the demand
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  6. S1 E6 - Dreaming Big

    March 9, 2016
    52min
    TV-14
    Mankind has proved time and time again that they are more than capable of dreaming big Ferocious ambition along with a go big or go home mentality has produced both world renowned monuments and monumental gaffs
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Directors

Chris Bamford

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