Episodes

7 episodes in this season

The Great Ship

50 min

The Brooklyn Bridge

50 min

The Bell Rock Lighthouse

50 min

The Sewer King

50 min

The Panama Canal

50 min

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The Line

50 min

The Hoover Dam

50 min

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

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200350m6.7

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The Line

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Oct 9, 2003

The episode follows the construction of the Pacific Railroad, the first transcontinental rail system, which would unite the eastern and western seaboards of the United States. Started in Sacramento by a consortium of local shopkeepers with no experience in building a railroad, the episode follows their efforts to build from west to east through the forbidding Sierra Nevada mountains with the help of Chinese labourers whilst simultaneously following the efforts of the workers of the Union Pacific to build from east to west, and their problems in dealing with the lawless nature of the wild west, attacks by Native American raiding parties, and financial corruption and scandal.

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Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

TV Series

200350m6.7

Documentary

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The Line

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Oct 9, 2003

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