Season 1: 2003
(101) Tokyo's Sky City
(102) Subways In America / East Side Tunnel
(103) Transatlantic Tunnel
(104) City in a Pyramid / The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid
(105) Bridging the Bering Strait / The Bering Strait Bridge
(106) Tunneling Under the Alps / Gotthard Base Tunnel
(107) Building Hong Kong's Airport / Hong Kong International Airport
(108) Holland's Barriers to the Sea / Maeslantkering and Oosterscheldekering storm surge barriers
(109) Boston's Big Dig
(110) Widening the Panama Canal / Panama Canal expansion project
Season 2: 2004
9 episodes were produced for season 2. It is also the first season produced in HDTV.
(201) Turning Torso / Turning Torso
(202) Venice Flood Gates / Venice Tide Barrier Project (MOSE Project)
(203) Container Ships / Adrian Mærsk (Maersk Line)
(204) Oakland Bay Bridge / San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
(205) Iceland Tunnels / Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project
(206) Oil Rigs / Jack up oil rigs in Louisiana
(207) Cooper River Bridge / Cooper River Bridge
(208) Millau Viaduct / Millau Viaduct
(209) Excavators / Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine
Season 3: 2005
WagTV produced 6 episodes that were acquired by Discovery for season 3.
(301)The Snøhvit Arctic Gas Processing Platform / Snøhvit platform / MV Blue Marlin
(302)The El Cajon Dam / El Cajon Dam (Mexico)
(303)Hong Kong's Cable Car / Ngong Ping 360
(304)Woodrow Wilson Bridge / Woodrow Wilson Bridge
(305)Gotthard Tunnel / Gotthard Base Tunnel
(306)Dubai's Ski Resort / Ski Dubai
Season 4: 2006
Powderhouse Productions produced 6 episodes for season 4 with host Danny Forster. It currently airs under the Build It Bigger name on Discovery HD Theater.
(401) SuperStadium / University of Phoenix Stadium
(402) MegaTunnel / Storm Management And Road Tunnel (SMART) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
(403) Biggest Warship / USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77)
(404) Sakhalin Oil & Ice / Sakhalin-II
(405) Big Easy Rebuild / Reconstruction of New Orleans
(406) Space Tower / Madrid's Torre Espacio
Season 5: 2006
(501) South Ferry Subway Station / The New York City Subway's new South Ferry station
(502) World's Biggest Arch Bridge / Hoover Dam Bypass
(503) JFK: JetBlue Terminal / Reconstruction of John F. Kennedy International Airport's Terminal 5
(504) Stonecutters Bridge: Hong Kong / Hong Kong's Stonecutters Bridge
(505) California Academy of Sciences / The rebuilding of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California
(506) Hallandsås Ridge Tunnel: Sweden / Sweden's Hallandsas railway tunnel
Season 6: 2007
(601) Building a Destroyer / Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine
(602) Fault Zone Tunnel / Freshwater pipeline to support Southern California. Watch a TBM at work.
(603) Boot Camp / With Excavators in Boston, Massachusetts.
(604) World's Tallest Skyscraper / Shanghai World Financial Centre
(605) Battle Machines / To see how a M1 Abrams tank beeing maintenanced in Fort Knox, Kentucky
(606) Coaster Build Off / Griffon a steel rollercoaster in Busch Gardens Europe and the Renegade in Valleyfair
(607) High Risk Tower / City of Culture of Galicia
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Extreme Engineering
Monday, June 23, 2008
Buried Alive: A Survivor's Story
Buried alive because her tribe thought she had no soul. Plucked from the grave at the last moment by her brother. Then forced to live as a social outcast for three long years until sickness and neglect brought her once again to the doorway of death...
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Banged Up Abroad
This is my new favorite documentary. It is a series called 'Banged Up Abroad', and no, it is not porn!! :)
It's a show from the UK (I think) about people who have been locked up in foreign jails/prisons for trying to smuggle outrageous amounts of [mostly] drugs. Some served just a few months, others were sentenced to years with a few of them still locked up currently. This is a must watch show.
I only know of [and have been able to find] 8 episodes, so please let me know if I am missing any! Enjoy!
Season 1 [2006 ]
1. Scott and Lucy's Story
2. Thailand: Susan's Story
3. Mark's Story
4. Denis and Donald's Story
Season 2 [2007]
1. Venezuela: Jim and Paul's Story
2. Peru: Krista and Jennifer's Story
3. Nepal: Piers's Story
4. Colombia: Glen's Story [odd one out]
Season 3 [2008]
1. Kuwait
2. Peru 2
3. Bangladesh
4. Pakistan
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Modern Marvels Engineering Disasters
Modern Marvels Engineering Disasters
**The episode desriptions may not be correct; I have yet to find a source that has all the episodes listed and I haven’t had the time**
Episode 1:
Episode 2:
Episode 3: Engineering disasters and design flaws are examined. Included: the Leaning Tower of Pisa; the “Texas Tower” radar station off the coast of New Jersey. Also: the Mars Climate Orbiter.
Episode 4: Sinking bridges, deadly fires and sickening collapses serve as lessons to generations of engineers to create a safer future.
Episode 5: Shoddy workmanship, bad planning and poor research combine in these tales of technological woe.
Episode 6: Take an in-depth look at the modern era’s most complex, deadly, and controversial engineering failures.
Episode 7: Five engineering disasters are about to reveal their darkest secrets. They include a dam that suddenly gave way, spilling liquid havoc in a quiet neighborhood, a mysterious plane crash that killed…
Episode 8: A Connecticut bridge collapse, a famous flood and the death of a golfer highlight the latest episode of the popular MODERN MARVELS sub-series.
Episode 9: Once more, MODERN MARVELS turns its eye on the dark side of technological achievement.
Episode 10: A Stalin-era Soviet blunder and the Bhopal disaster highlight this look at engineering gone awry.
Episode 11: Watch as a San Francisco mansion is swallowed by a sinkhole and explore the human causes of one of China’s deadliest “”natural”" disasters.
Episode 12: The Texas A&M bonfire disaster and Denver’s infamous airport luggage system are among the subjects featured in this illuminating hour.
Episode 13: See why Patriot missiles failed during Desert Storm and visit the site of Love Canal.
Episode 14: A flash flood of molasses and a subway cave-in are among the events featured in this episode.
Episode 15: Examine the Mississippi River disaster that was once the worst in maritime history.
Episode 16: Get the inside story behind Mexico’s exploding streets, one of the first major oil spills, and an Italian mining disaster.
Episode 17: Landslides, airport terminal collapses, and too brilliant (literally) design feature in this episode.
Episode 18: Once again, MODERN MARVELS explores the cost–and important legacy–of engineering errors writ large.
Episode 19: We take a “close look” at microscopic structures causing gigantic problems in the electronics industry–tin whiskers, as they are known by researchers, which spontaneously grow from the pure ti
Episode 20:
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Extraordinary Animals [series]
Hong The Elephant Artist.Series of documentaries profiling members of the animal kingdom who have amazing talents. This programme explores the extraordinary abilities of Hong, an elephant whose painting skills have rocked the art world and challenged hitherto accepted views on animal intelligence. Can Hong's work pass as art in a top London gallery?http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...52414224&hl=en
The Grim Reaper Dog.Series of documentaries profiling some remarkable members of the animal kingdom. This film tells the story of Skamp, a four-year-old schnauzer who has correctly predicted the death of 58 residents of a nursing home in Ohio over the last three years. The dog alerts staff by barking and then stays with the patients until they pass away. Is this just pure coincidence, or is there a scientific explanation to the animal's behaviour?http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...35175220&hl=en
The Smartest Sea Lion.Series of documentaries profiling some remarkable members of the animal kingdom. This film focuses on Rio, a sea lion who demonstrates an extraordinary ability to solve logical problems. Reared at the Marine Mammal Laboratory in California, Rio formed a strong bond with Dr Ron Schusterman whose subsequent research illustrated that the animal performed better in a series of logical tests than some humans. http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...96199215&hl=en
The Genius Parrot.Series of documentaries profiling some remarkable members of the animal kingdom. This programme explores the case of Griffin - a parrot whose extraordinary cognitive and communication skills have altered the scientific perception of avian intelligence. Also featured is Einstein, a 22-year-old parrot with an incredible talent for mimicry. http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...48473965&hl=en
The Greatest Ape.Series of documentaries profiling some remarkable members of the animal kingdom. This edition focuses on Azy, a 30-year-old orang-utan with incredible mental abilities. Over a number of years, Azy has displayed his intelligence by recognising symbols and objects; demonstrating self-awareness; and showing exceptional memory skills. http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...93246275&hl=en
The Super Sonic Dolphin.
Series of documentaries profiling some remarkable members of the animal kingdom. This film introduces Luna, a six-year-old bottlenose dolphin whose starring role in a radical new scientific project is allowing humans and dolphins to communicate on a new level.Missing
The Memory Chimp.
Series of documentaries profiling some remarkable members of the animal kingdom. Ayumu is a seven-year-old chimpanzee living in a scientific research centre in Japan, whose amazing abilities are changing the popular perception of chimpanzee intelligence.Missing
Sunday, March 23, 2008
When Surgical Tools Get Left Behind [Discovery Channel]
What a horrible thing to go through......
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
If We had No Moon
What would life on earth be like without the moon? Well, chances are, there wouldn't be any life on earth without the moon. Life – if it had started at all – would still be in the earliest stages of evolution. Watch Movie
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