2015 - 2021
6.8 / 10
15 votes
10 Seasons • 82 Episodes
Overview
Behind every seemingly impossible marvel of modern engineering is a cast of historic trailblazers who designed new building techniques, took risks on untested materials and revolutionised their field. Each episode details how giant structures, record-beating buildings, war ships and spacecraft are built and work. As the show revels in these modern day creations, it also leaps back in time to recount the stories of the exceptional engineers whose technological advances made it all possible.Seasons
Episodes
1000 Days of Fear: The Deadly Race at Los Alamos
2015
The Hairy Bikers' Restoration Road Trip
2013
Dreaming The Impossible: Unbuilt Britain
2013
Masters of Engineering
2017
Building to the Sky
2019
Mega Manufacturing
2019
Brits Who Made The Modern World
2008
Time Scanners
2014
Power: Engineering Energy and Speed
2017
Exceptional Engineering
2018
How Britain Worked
2012
Ian Hislop's Trains That Changed the World
2021
Shannons Club TV
2013
Shannons Legends of Motorsport
2014
The Secret Life of Machines
1988
Concorde: The Race for Supersonic
2023
Air Warriors
2014
Bridging the Expanse
2019
Extreme Engineering
2003
Ancient Impossible
2015