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How Did They Fix That?
S3, EP5 "Fixing For A Fight: U.S. Army Mega Repair Base"Mike works with the U.S. Army in Germany inside the massive fix facility The MAK, Maintenance Activity Kaiserslautern, as teams repair over one hundred Bradley fighting vehicles, then embeds with troops in a massive two week long battle exercise.
How Did They Build That?
S2, EP9 "Mirrors & Marble"Visiting Australia's One Central Park, the Oslo Opera House and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to reveal their architectural secrets.
How Did They Build That?
S1, EP1 "Cantilevers & Lifts"An unstable high rise, an otherworldly museum, and a towering cliffside elevator.
How Did They Build That?
S4, EP6 "Shipyards & Slender Builds"A 284ft wooden skyscraper built from 1,200 bespoke pieces tests fire safety limits in Milwaukee; a decaying Amsterdam crane track transforms into glass offices; a needle-thin tower stacks 28 apartments onto a 21ft-wide plot in Melbourne, Australia.
How Did They Build That?
S4, EP2 "Medals & Marinas"Paying tribute to the brave, gravity-defying design of the U.S. National Medal of Honor Museum; traveling to Singapore for a look at a leaning tower of gambling, then exploring a New York City office building that lets the sun shine through.
How Did They Build That?
S4, EP1 "Space Stations and Super"Celebrating one of humanities biggest engineering achievements, the International Space Station, a meteor proof lab bigger than a football field, constructed by astronauts traveling 250 miles above us at 17,500 miles an hour.
Disasters Engineered
S1, EP4 "Industrial Slides"A 1966 landslide in Wales killed 116 children and 28 adults; a 2019 dam collapse killed 115 people in Brazil.
Air Disasters
S20, EP5 "Fuel Trouble"History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined.
Aerial America
S1, EP30 "Arizona"A flight over Arizona explores the state's storied past, architectural achievements and landscapes, including America's natural wonder, the Grand Canyon.
Aerial America
S1, EP59 "The Great Plains"An aerial tour over America's Great Plains tracks the prairies, farms, oilfields and wildlife.
Aerial America
S1, EP29 "Alabama"Vast cotton fields, Gulf coast beaches; famous Civil Rights marches; NASCAR's most dangerous track; steel factories.
Air Disasters
S21, EP1 "Scratching the Surface"After taking off from Taiwan, a China Airlines 747 suddenly disappears from radar and crashes, killing 225 people.
Disasters Engineered
S1, EP2 "Chemical Blasts"Experts examine how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the Bhopal gas tragedy happened; they also explore the consequences and how they could have been avoided.
Disasters Engineered
S1, EP4 "Industrial Slides"A 1966 landslide in Wales killed 116 children and 28 adults; a 2019 dam collapse killed 115 people in Brazil.
Air Disasters
S18, EP7 "Unlocking Disaster"A 747's cargo door opens at 23,000 feet, causing an explosive decompression that ejects nine passengers from the plane.
Air Disasters
S18, EP12 "Flying on Empty"When Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic, its pilots desperately try to keep their Airbus A330 in the air until they reach land.