Abandoned Engineering

Abandoned Engineering

S02E06 - America's Jungle City

28.12. 18:45
History Channel
45 minutes
2018
Documentary

This week, find out why Fordlandia Rubber Town, a symbol of the American dream first established by Henry Ford in the 1920s, is now left rotting in the Amazonian rainforest. Also, what secrets do the enormous monoliths scattered across a secret forest complex in Eastern Poland hold? And what secrets does a fortified corridor of death with a Cold war past stretching for miles across Hötensleben, Germany hold? And a bizarre structure in South Western France built to speed trade was once at the forefront of design, now lies disused and abandoned, but why?

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Episodes

Season 7
S07E06

The Mafia Bunker

19.3. 16:56, Prima Zoom, 58 minutes

The Mafia Bunker

Research into why and how large projects were built, the financial and social costs of their failure, and the consequences for the environment. Experts present plans to make something new from the ruins.

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S07E07

Ruins of the Rust Belt

23.3. 23:00, Prima Zoom, 60 minutes

Ruins of the Rust Belt

Research into why and how large projects were built, the financial and social costs of their failure, and the consequences for the environment. Experts present plans to make something new from the ruins.

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Czech, English, Hungarian
2018
Documentary

Research into why and how large projects were built, the financial and social costs of their failure, and the consequences for the environment. Experts present plans to make something new from the ruins.

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Tom Ward