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Engineering from Above
Engineering from Above

Engineering from Above

—Explore some of the world's remarkable engineering marvels, using cutting-edge technology and dynamic graphics, revealing sites from new perspectives and uncovering the secrets hidden within.
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  • Engineering Nature

    Presenting an aerial tour of an engineering and mimicry marvel in London, Singapore's Supertree Grove and strange bubble-like domes in southern England.
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  • Engineering Disasters

    Rural Brazil sees the devastating destruction of a dam; a bridge collapses in Genoa, Italy; a once mighty ancient castle is reduced to ruins in Gaziantep, Turkey.
    Upcoming

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Season 14 of 8 Episodes

  • Explore a massive defensive wall surrounding a historic Colombian city and see how a series of eerie metal structures protected the English coast during WW II; then visit a vast underground refuge in Turkey designed to protect tens of thousands.

  • An aerial view of an ancient temple engineered to survive the ravages of time, a cathedral rising from the heart of Barcelona, and a remote, cliffside shrine that seemingly defies the laws of gravity.

  • Revealed from above; The Pantheon, one of ancient Rome's enduring and enigmatic feats of engineering; in Panama, a continent-crossing canal that almost never was; and in a remote valley in Spain a supersized cross built to memorialize the dead of a brutal civil war.

  • Revealed from above; a big bridge spanning a gigantic gorge in France; a record-breaking outdoor elevator in China; and the world's longest tunnel carving its way deep beneath the Alps.

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4 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Fortresses
    For the Gods
    Record Breakers
    Superstars
  • Fortresses

    Explore a massive defensive wall surrounding a historic Colombian city and see how a series of eerie metal structures protected the English coast during WW II; then visit a vast underground refuge in Turkey designed to protect tens of thousands.
    Upcoming
  • For the Gods

    An aerial view of an ancient temple engineered to survive the ravages of time, a cathedral rising from the heart of Barcelona, and a remote, cliffside shrine that seemingly defies the laws of gravity.
    Upcoming
  • Record Breakers

    Revealed from above; a big bridge spanning a gigantic gorge in France; a record-breaking outdoor elevator in China; and the world's longest tunnel carving its way deep beneath the Alps.
    Upcoming
  • Superstars

    Revealed from above; The Pantheon, one of ancient Rome's enduring and enigmatic feats of engineering; in Panama, a continent-crossing canal that almost never was; and in a remote valley in Spain a supersized cross built to memorialize the dead of a brutal civil war.
    Upcoming
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