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Abandoned Engineering — Season 6, Episode 1
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Abandoned Engineering(2017)
Ambitious engineering projects that have been left in ruins.
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Creator:
- N/A
- Released:
- 2017-02-18
Synopsis
These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.
Seasons & Episodes
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3. Blast Zone
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4. North Of The Wall
2020-07-30 · 44m
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5. The World's Strangest Disaster Zones
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6. Defenders Of Liberty
2020-11-03 · 44m
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7. Space Plane
2020-11-10 · 44m
A juggernaut of Soviet engineering which was crucial to the international space race. Deserted Scottish coastal defences and a complex that's crucial to American history.
8. Disaster On The 38th Parallel
2020-11-17 · 44m
The mysterious Cachtice Castle home to Elizabeth Bathory, said to have killed over 600 girls and a mysterious structure on the 38th parallel.
9. Bunker Nation
2020-11-24 · 44m
A small isolated country littered with strange concrete mushrooms and a secret Japanese facility that was once at the forefront of weapons technology.
10. The Human Zoo
2020-12-01 · 44m
A creepy collection of buildings, monuments hidden in a Parisian park and an eerie graveyard of discarded ships strewn along the banks of a mighty river.
11. Spike Island
2020-12-08 · 44m
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Cast
Tom Ward
Self - Narrator
