Modern Marvels (1993)

Considered by many to be the most astounding machine ever built, this reusable spaceship is the apex of flight technology. This program rec…

It was an engineering feat of almost miraculous proportions and a design of spectacular elegance. Rare photographs and behind-the-scenes st…

There is no more potent demonstration of man’s resolve than the design and construction of tunnels–avenues that slice through a conspiracy…

During the depths of the Great Depression, it was FDR’s greatest triumph: A massive public works project that took a 40,000 square mile, di…

From the first well in Pennsylvania to the gushing Spindletop and modern supertankers, the story of oil is the story of civilization as we…

It was called the "mother lode", a deposit of silver so massive that it would produce $300-million in its first 25 years of operation, esta…

A trip through time on the New York Subway beginning at the beginning– October 1904. We look at New York before the subway–a world of horse…

The year was 1869 and America had just completed the greatest building achievement in its history–the Transcontinental Railroad. A thin rib…

The story of the construction of our grand national highway system, from its beginnings in 1912 (it was conceived by auto and headlight tyc…

Being starved by an OPEC embargo, America is desperate for oil, and in 1973 construction begins on a 800 mile pipeline, tapping into Alaska…