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Tower Crane (DVD)
Series: Mega Movers
 Soaring 36 stories above Los Angeles, the modern tower crane is a masterpiece of engineering. But it takes a team of masters indeed to break it down and relocate it, and we'll see how it's done. Next, the MEGA MOVERS head across the country and into the ocean to try to restore a stretch of Florida coastline ravaged by a hurricane. Some 4 million cubic yards of sand are restored from the seafloor to the beach where they belong.
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Cranes (DVD)
Series: Modern Marvels
 The principle is simple and elegant: a pulley and a lever. The application can be extraordinarily sophisticated, with mobile cranes able to reach heights of 600 feet and tower cranes capable of soaring even higher. For thousands of years, CRANES have been essential to realizing mankind's dreams of shaping the environment. MODERN MARVELS® goes on site as skyscrapers are being built, container ships are unloaded, and movies are shot to show the wide range of cranes in use today, explaining the differences among the many varieties of this essential tool.
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Sears Tower (DVD)
Series: Modern Marvels
It was one of the most ambitious construction projects ever undertaken. When the Sears Company decided to consolidate their operations under one roof, the only way to make it happen was to create the world's largest corporate headquarters. The completion of Sears Tower gave Chicago a new landmark--the tallest building in the world.
MODERN MARVELS® traces the history of the Sears Tower, documenting the innovations that the massive structure demanded and meeting with the men and women who keep the skyscraper operating smoothly.
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History of Tall Buildings (DVD)
Series: Modern Marvels
They are cathedrals of commerce and a testament to the skill of the engineers, architects and workers that made them. They are the most American of buildings.
From the pioneering Chicago buildings of the late 19th century to the Twin Towers of New York's world Trade Center, THE HISTORY OF TALL BUILDINGS shows how skyscrapers are designed, built and run.
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John Hancock Center (DVD)
Series: Mega Movers
• A step-by-step look at the creation of a monumental facility.
• Go behind the scenes at the centerpiece of Chicago's "Magnificent Mile."
• See footage and photos of its controversial creation.
A steel giant standing 1,107 feet high, the John Hancock Center houses 1,200 people. Join MODERN MARVELS® for the story of how a young architectural team created an innovative 100-story, multi-use tower. Though a construction crisis halted the project for six months, once work resumed it took just four years and 50 million man-hours to complete.
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Building Big: Skyscrapers (DVD)
Series: Building Big
 Tour the towers that made history and altered the future. Why was New York’s most famous skyscraper dubbed the "Empty State Building?" How big is Japan’s planned "supertower?" Tour the world’s most incredible skylines with award-winning author-illustrator—and captivating storyteller—David Macaulay (The Way Things Work) and trace the amazing stories of skyscrapers. From France’s Gothic cathedrals to Malaysia’s record-breaking Petronas Towers, Skyscrapers introduces courageous creators, recounts little known history, and reveals supersized triumphs through spectacular film footage and dramatic recreations.
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Sketches of Frank Gehry (DVD)
 A look at the life and career of architect Frank Gehry (1929 - ), a visit to four buildings (the Vitra Museum in Germany, Maggie's Centre, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, and the Disney Concert Hall in L.A.), and an inquiry into creativity in conversations between Ghery and Sidney Pollack, whom Gehry asked to make this picture. Early experiences (playing with blocks with his grandmother, drawing with his father, hearing Alvar Aalto lecture), discovering computer-assisted design, finding a psychoanalyst, experimenting on his own home, and bringing an artist and sculptor's sensibility to architecture are part of Gehry's story. Friends, artists, critics, and curators comment.
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Massive Bridges (DVD)
Series: Mega Movers
• An Iowa bridge gets airlifted to its new home.
• Engineers are put to the test relocating everything from 19th century churches to massive factories.
• The ultimate in heavy lifting.
Without bridges, cargo and people would not get far. But what happens when a bridge itself needs to be moved? In this episode, we see how two very different bridges are moved.
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Big Dig (DVD)
 America's oldest city is getting a makeover that may very well herald a new era in municipal engineering. Its official name is the Massachusetts Central Artery/Tunnel Project. But everyone calls it the Big Dig.
At its peak, the project employs 5,000 hard hat workers, 300 cranes and 453 dump trucks. They are all engaged in the monumental task of replacing Boston's decaying highway system with 160 lane-miles of new road, more than half of which are underground and underwater.
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Skywalkers (DVD)
Series: Dangerous Missions
They tread narrow steel beams hundreds of feet in the air. Theirs is a world where one wrong step can be their last, and sudden death is an ever-present fact of life. They are the high steel workers who build skyscrapers and bridges, dodging swinging iron to erect the towering structures that are the backbone of the modern city.
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City Water (DVD)
Series: Modern Marvels
• Follow the flow in cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
• Get the inside scoop on how 99% of Americans get their water.
• See what the next generation of water tech may bring.
When we turn on a faucet, we expect clean, pure water to flow out. We also expect our cities to provide ample water for industry, fighting fires, and cleaning streets.
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Trains Unlimited (DVD set)
Series: Mega Movers
 Their rails carried America west to fulfill its "manifest destiny." Their locomotives drove the revolution that transformed the nation into an industrial colossus. From the birth of the Iron Horse to the revolutionary high-speed trains that can compete with planes and win! TRAINS UNLIMITED tells the fascinating story of railroading in America.
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The Chunnel (DVD set)
Series: Modern Marvels
It was the realization of a dream that had tantalized for centuries. It was also one of the most significant engineering triumphs of all time.
THE CHUNNEL is a fascinating, step-by-step chronicle of the arduous process that finally connected England and France beneath the English Channel. Find out how satellite technology revealed the only safe route for the passage, and go on the job with the French and British workers to see how the different nations each approached the job in their own way.
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New York Bridges (DVD set)
Series: Modern Marvels
America's greatest city is built on an island. The monumental task of connecting it to the rest of the nation was undertaken by engineers, and the ways they solved the problem are some of the greatest stories in the annals of MODERN MARVELSTM.
NEW YORK BRIDGES visits the Brooklyn and George Washington Bridges, the Tri-Borough and the 59th Street. In the stone and steel of these edifices the history of modern bridge building can be seen. But they are more than just engineering marvels, and there are many more bridges than most people know. All-told, 18 spans link Manhattan to the mainland and Long Island, and each one has its own tale.
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Athens Subway (DVD set)
Series: Modern Marvels
How do you modernize transportation in one of the oldest cities of the world, while accommodating the largest archaeological excavations conducted to date in Athens? MODERN MARVELS® chronicles how the Greek city built a new underground subway system to meet the needs of the 2004 Olympics, while at the same time uncovering thousands of invaluable artifacts spanning 25 centuries. Project engineers and prominent archaeologists discuss the difficult balance between progress and preservation and how engineers had to resort to ingenious methods of building and tunneling so as not to harm Athens' ancient treasures.
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London Underground (DVD set)
Series: Modern Marvels
In 1863, a steam engine made the first run of a new era as the very first subway train chugged beneath London's streets. Nearly a century and a half later, the "Tube" is an internationally recognized symbol of the British capitol, and one of the most extensive subway systems in the world.
MODERN MARVELSTM tells the complete story of the 243-mile-long subterranean network that keeps London moving. Engineers lead a tour of the inner workings of the Tube, and show the chambers and tunnels where its past lives on today. Historians trace the developments that transformed the first subway into the extensive network that it is today, and we'll get a peek at the brand-new Jubilee line, the fully-automated model for the future of public transportation.
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Offshore Oil Drilling (DVD)
Series: Modern Marvels
They are virtual cities stuck in the middle of some of the most dangerous seas on earth. Life on them is hard and fraught with danger from calamitous fires and the risk of storms and natural disasters. But fueled by the endless demand for oil and the unpredictable politics of the global economy, the search for fossil fuel has led to the creation of some of the most incredible structures ever made.
OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING is a fascinating look at how oilrigs are designed, deployed and run. Meet the engineers who must develop structures that can handle waves of up to 50 feet high and 100mph winds while extracting oil from thousands of feet below the seas' surface.
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