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A hard-driving engineer with a reputation for excellence is on a quest to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States, bringing much needed water to the arid American West.

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The Hoover Dam

Obsessed engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert Hoover battle side by side to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time in San Francisco: The Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge.

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A century before the Internet, two brave visionaries, Collin Perry and Cyrus Field, endure failure and heartache while risking everything to connect the United States to the rest of the world with a cable under the ocean.

Cable Across the Sea

Visionary engineers in New York and Boston vie to build the first subway system in America, but must overcome unprecedented engineering challenges, deadly accidents, fierce political infighting, and the public's fear of the underground.

Race to the Underground

France and America compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; it will cost 30,000 lives, $600 million dollars, and require overcoming many obstacles.

The Panama Canal

Two master road builders spend decades struggling to create a highway system that connects every city and town in America; this will be one of the greatest public works projects in history.

Road Warriors

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.

Liberty Rising

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.

Race for the Railroad

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