8.1/1022 votesLoading...#1 - The Hoover Dam
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2021
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. He'll struggle with a disgruntled workforce, hellish conditions, and nearly insurmountable engineering challenges, but when it's done, the Hoover Dam will be as tall as a 60-story building, requiring more material than the Great Pyramid, and with enough concrete to circle the equator.
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8.0/1023 votesLoading...#2 - Battle of the Bridges
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/2021
Braving treacherous waters 350 feet deep, gale-force winds and earthquakes, 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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7.7/1032 votesLoading...#3 - Liberty Rising
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2021
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.
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7.6/1025 votesLoading...#4 - Race for the Railroad
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2021
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.
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7.5/1025 votesLoading...#5 - Road Warriors
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/2021
Two master roadbuilders spend decades struggling to create a highway system that connects every city and town in America. It will be the greatest public works project in history--more expensive than two thousand Hoover Dams, three times longer than the Great Wall of China, and with enough pavement for three round trips to the moon.
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7.4/1022 votesLoading...#6 - Race to the Underground
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/2021
After the London Underground becomes the first subway system in the world, visionary engineers in New York and Boston vie to build the first one in America. But being first will mean overcoming unprecedented engineering challenges, deadly accidents, fierce political infighting, and the public's fear of the underground. When the dust settles, the American city will never be the same.
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7.4/1021 votesLoading...#7 - Cable Across the Sea
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/2021
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.
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7.2/1023 votesLoading...#8 - The Panama Canal
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2021
Two powerful nations--France and America--compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Completing it will cost 30 thousand lives, $600 million dollars, and require overcoming every obstacle imaginable--from mudslides to malaria to bankruptcy.
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The Best Episodes of The Engineering That Built the World
Every episode of The Engineering That Built the World ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Engineering That Built the World!
The stories behind the iconic structures and engineering feats that have shaped and defined our nation and our world.
Genre:Documentary
Network:History
Best Episodes Summary
"The Hoover Dam" is the best rated episode of "The Engineering That Built the World". It scored 8.1/10 based on 22 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/21/2021. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Battle of the Bridges".