Season 1 (2021)

Race for the Railroad
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October 10, 2021 • 1h 3m

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

Liberty Rising
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October 17, 2021 • 1h 3m

A little-known 19th-century French artist embarks on a 20-year odyssey to build the tallest statue in the world and erect it on U.S. soil.

Road Warriors
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October 24, 2021 • 1h 3m

Two master roadbuilders spend decades struggling to create a highway system that connects every city and town in America. It will ...Read more

The Panama Canal
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October 31, 2021

Two powerful nations--France and America--compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oc...Read more

Race to the Underground
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November 7, 2021 • 1h 3m

After the London Underground becomes the first subway system in the world, visionary engineers in New York and Boston vie to build...Read more

Cable Across the Sea
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November 14, 2021 • 1h

A century before the Internet, two brave visionaries, Collin Perry and Cyrus Field, endure failure and heartache while risking eve...Read more

Battle of the Bridges
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November 21, 2021

Braving treacherous waters 350 feet deep, gale-force winds and earthquakes, obsessed engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert...Read more

The Hoover Dam
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November 21, 2021 • 1h 2m

A hard-driving engineer with a reputation for excellence is on a quest to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States, bri...Read more