Abandoned Engineering (2017)
These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.
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Episode 1 - The Desert Ghost Fleet
Release Date: 2019-03-26The programme looks at a mysterious group of rusting ships stranded in an arid desert, a monstrous defensive line on the snow-covered peaks of the Italian Alps, a ghostly collection of buildings, and the sunken remains of a unique vessel.
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Episode 2 - The Underwater Prison
Release Date: 2019-04-02An abandoned prison beneath the water, a tunnel in the heart of a mountain, concrete towers hidden in the woods and a rusting coastal relic.
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Episode 3 - The Siege Of Sarajevo
Release Date: 2019-04-09Concrete channels hidden in a mountaintop forest, a collapsing bridge, a marooned military base and the upright rusting carcass of ship.
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Episode 4 - Sabotage in the Mountains
Release Date: 2019-04-16A towering structure with an explosive past, a deserted cityscape, a mysterious top-secret facility and a vast Nazi construction.
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Episode 5 - Germany's D-Day Fortress
Release Date: 2019-04-23A devastated cliff-top ruin, an extraordinarily tall tower, a concrete structure stranded at sea and a heavy metal monster in a field all feature.
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Episode 6 - Hitler's Wonder Weapons Bunker
Release Date: 2019-04-30Hidden tunnels that saw a city prosper, a sunken wreck with a remarkable past, a concrete wartime dome and a mysterious Cold War building.
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Episode 7 - A Ghost Town In Spain
Release Date: 2019-05-07A village ruin, pitted and scarred, a ghostly fleet of ships, a bridge to nowhere hidden in a forest and strange metal structures in a wood.
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Episode 8 - England's Abandoned Village
Release Date: 2019-05-14An eerie, empty country village which hides a sad secret, a mysterious tower battered by the elements and a disused railway deep beneath the streets of a city.