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Super Stadiums & Extraordinary Elevators

How Did They Build That?

S4, EP9 "Super Stadiums & Extraordinary Elevators"

Examine the sightlines in Los Angeles's SoFi Stadium, which sits right in the flight path of LAX; celebrate the ingenuity of the inexperienced crew that built a monumental skyscraper in Malta; visit a forest tower designed for testing elevators.

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, EP4 "High Waters & Harsh Winds"

Defy gravity in an Amsterdam high-rise that hangs 164 feet above the water; marvel at three interconnected towers in Chicago that have a road running through them; examine the revolutionary framework of Paris' controversial Pompidou Centre.

How Did They Build That?

S4, EP3 "Speedcore & Steambend"

Peek inside a cloud-inspired library in Canada that's built over a live railway; see how clever engineering helped a huge Seattle skyscraper go up without harming its iconic neighbour, then cross an Australian bridge that floats above a busy river.

How Did They Build That?

S5, EP1 "Reborn Buildings & Sacred Grounds"

In Oklahoma, a sacred spiral mound rises on a former oilfield, honouring 39 tribes. London's crumbling Battersea Power Station is reborn with two million new bricks. And in Spain, Frank Gehry crowns a historic winery.

How Did They Build That?

S4, EP5 "Ecobuilds & Earthquakes"

Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge.

Air Crash Investigation

S25, EP4 "Second Thoughts"

The turboprop plane begins its descent in thick fog, but things go wrong; Luxair Flight 9642 crashes a few kilometers from the runway; investigators discover that there was nothing abnormal about the two engines.

Air Disasters

S20, EP27 "Runway Collisions"

Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question; a look at how two planes end up on the same runway at the same time.

Air Disasters

S17, EP2 "Peril Over Portugal"

On December 21, 1992, Martinair Flight 495 crashes off the right side of the runway while attempting to land at Faro Airport in Faro, Portugal, in severe weather conditions, killing 56 of the 340 people on board.

Air Disasters

S16, EP7 "Mission Disaster"

After losing two engines near enemy territory, U.S. Air Force pilots abort their refueling mission and try to land their damaged plane.

Air Disasters

S21, EP4 "Sight Unseen"

Saudi Airways and Kazakhstan Airlines jets hit each other at 14,000 feet sending both planes spiraling to the ground.

Air Disasters

S9, EP2 "Terror in San Francisco"

The 2013 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco shocks the nation.

Air Crash Investigation

S25, EP3 "Power Struggle"

In Indonesia, a Boeing 737 spirals out of the sky and nosedives into the Java Sea.

Air Disasters

S20, EP15 "Mountain Impact"

Following three horrifying crashes, investigators uncover fatal flaws in the very operations designed to prevent aircraft from flying into mountains.

Air Disasters

S13, EP9 "Soccer Tragedy"

A plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team crashes just ten miles from the airport in 2016.

Air Disasters

S14, EP5 "Explosive Clues"

A look at three commercial planes that became targets over the Sinai Desert, the Sea of Japan and Ukraine.

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