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Engineering Catastrophes

And if the issuesare not solved herethey escalate and amplify. In the end, many...

And if the issues
are not solved here
they escalate and amplify. [narrator] In the end, many believe
problems like these
are inevitable in the drive
to build ever taller

Full Transcript

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And if the issues are not solved here they escalate and amplify.
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[narrator] In the end,
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many believe problems like these are inevitable
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in the drive to build ever taller.
Duration
14 seconds
Views
11
Timestamp in Movie
00:32:38
Uploaded
Oct 28, 2025
Season
6
Episode
10
Genres
documentary
Production
Moviecoop

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Movie Summary

With access to all phases of design and a large cast of experts, some of the great failures of engineering history are uncovered.
S06 • E07 NARRATOR: An engineering tale of two cities - Engineering Catastrophes 00:07
NARRATOR: An engineering tale of two cities
S06 • E09 NARRATOR: Ultimately, the remoteness - Engineering Catastrophes 00:11
NARRATOR: Ultimately, the remoteness
S06 • E04 [narrator] With the war on drugs ongoing, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:44
[narrator] With the war on drugs ongoing,
S06 • E03 [narrator] Niagara Falls. One of the world's most iconic locations. - Engineering Catastrophes 00:23
[narrator] Niagara Falls. One of the world's most ic...
S06 • E09 BAKER: Obviously, this dam being so far up - Engineering Catastrophes 00:07
BAKER: Obviously, this dam being so far up
S06 • E07 NARRATOR: And a seemingly straightforward calculation - Engineering Catastrophes 00:09
NARRATOR: And a seemingly straightforward calculation
S06 • E02 Hopefully, Cuenca's houses will be hanging around - Engineering Catastrophes 00:07
Hopefully, Cuenca's houses will be hanging around
S06 • E06 Like this construction in Germany, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:14
Like this construction in Germany,
S06 • E09 So operations and maintenance of the dam was very difficult. - Engineering Catastrophes 00:06
So operations and maintenance of the dam was very difficult.
S06 • E07 This boiled down to simple mathematics, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:08
This boiled down to simple mathematics,
S06 • E09 NARRATOR: The Lawn Lake Dam failure changed - Engineering Catastrophes 00:07
NARRATOR: The Lawn Lake Dam failure changed
S06 • E02 [narrator] With big structures, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:24
[narrator] With big structures,
S06 • E03 [narrator] One of nature's grandest creations, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:17
[narrator] One of nature's grandest creations,
S06 • E09 Almost everybody woke up about the idea that this could -- - Engineering Catastrophes 00:07
Almost everybody woke up about the idea that this could --
S06 • E06 [narrator] An evil empire with a twisted engineering design. - Engineering Catastrophes 00:08
[narrator] An evil empire with a twisted engineering design.
S06 • E10 The truth is, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:07
The truth is,
S06 • E09 NARRATOR: This disaster triggered inspections of - Engineering Catastrophes 00:09
NARRATOR: This disaster triggered inspections of
S06 • E01 [narrator] Opened once again Valencia's Opera House - Engineering Catastrophes 00:12
[narrator] Opened once again Valencia's Opera House
S06 • E06 It was meant to make the individual feel small and the state feel very large. - Engineering Catastrophes 00:12
It was meant to make the individual feel small and the state...
S06 • E07 NARRATOR: The Rhine is one of Europe's most important - Engineering Catastrophes 00:15
NARRATOR: The Rhine is one of Europe's most important