The Engineering That Built the World

Two rival rail companies, led by Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific and Thomas Durant of the Union Pacific, will stop at nothing to best each other.

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.

Two master roadbuilders spend decades struggling to create a motorway system that connects every city and town in America.

France and America compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; it will cost 30 thousand lives, $600 million dollars, and require overcoming obstacles from mudslides to malaria to bankruptcy.

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.

A century before the Internet, two brave visionaries, Collin Perry and Cyrus Field, endure failure and heartache while risking everything to connect the United States to the rest of the world with a cable under the ocean.

Braving treacherous waters, gale-force winds and earthquakes, engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert Hoover battle side by side to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time in San Francisco: The Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge.

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.