Skyscrapers: Engineering the Future
(2019)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 1
World's Tallest Buildings
Episode 6 - 5-29-2019
Dubai's Burj Khalifa is over 2,700 feet high and the tallest building in the world, and as engineers race to top this record-setting height with cutting-edge tech, a new 3,200-foot-tall building in Saudi Arabia is poised to take the crown.
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Cities in the Sky
Episode 5 - 5-22-2019
Today's greatest skyscrapers use cutting-edge tech to build sky-high micro-cities within their walls, and these innovative mega-builds are becoming the new engineering icons in Chicago, Dubai, Beijing, and other twenty-first century metropolises.
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The New Colossus
Episode 4 - 5-15-2019
The rise of colossal towers across the planet coincided with the surge of cutting-edge design, but just as these monoliths began breaking world records, new threats were on the horizon.
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Rise of the American Titans
Episode 3 - 5-08-2019
1h 0m
The World Trade Center and Sears Tower were record-setting skyscrapers made possible by cutting-edge engineering innovations, but just as these American icons set new standards in construction, dark and insidious forces were poised to undo it all.
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New York's Greatest
Episode 2 - 5-01-2019
The world's most iconic buildings were built in the heydey of the American century, and as New York became the capital for these innovative new skyscrapers, experts used cutting-edge tech to push engineering to new heights.
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American-Made Marvels
Episode 1 - 4-24-2019
42m
The rise of the skyscraper coincided with the rise of America as a global superpower, and experts reveal how expert engineering and cutting-edge technology helped power humankind's race to conquer the sky.
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