Season 3
(1995)
Cast
as Self - Narrator
Episodes
Space Shuttle 0.0
August 20, 1995
Considered by many to be the most astounding machine ever built, this reusable spaceship is the apex of flight technolo…
Brooklyn Bridge 0.0
October 1, 1995
It was an engineering feat of almost miraculous proportions and a design of spectacular elegance. Rare photographs and …
Tunnels 0.0
October 8, 1995
There is no more potent demonstration of man’s resolve than the design and construction of tunnels–avenues that slice t…
Tennessee Valley Authority 0.0
October 15, 1995
During the depths of the Great Depression, it was FDR’s greatest triumph: A massive public works project that took a 40…
Oil 0.0
October 16, 1995
From the first well in Pennsylvania to the gushing Spindletop and modern supertankers, the story of oil is the story of…
Silver Mines 0.0
October 1, 1995
It was called the "mother lode", a deposit of silver so massive that it would produce $300-million in its first 25 year…
The NYC Subway 0.0
October 19, 1995
A trip through time on the New York Subway beginning at the beginning– October 1904. We look at New York before the sub…
The Railroads That Tamed the West 0.0
October 20, 1995
The year was 1869 and America had just completed the greatest building achievement in its history–the Transcontinental …
Paving America 0.0
October 29, 1995
The story of the construction of our grand national highway system, from its beginnings in 1912 (it was conceived by au…
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline 0.0
November 4, 1995
Being starved by an OPEC embargo, America is desperate for oil, and in 1973 construction begins on a 800 mile pipeline,…