Abandoned Engineering
TV-PG
7.7
2017
Documentary
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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- Cast:
- Tom Ward
Episode 8 : England's Abandoned Village
May. 14,2019
An 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.
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Episode 7 : A Ghost Town In Spain
May. 07,2019
A 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 6 : Hitler's Wonder Weapons Bunker
April. 30,2019
Hidden 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 5 : Germany's D-Day Fortress
April. 23,2019
A 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 4 : Sabotage in the Mountains
April. 16,2019
A towering structure with an explosive past, a deserted cityscape, a mysterious top-secret facility and a vast Nazi construction.
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Episode 3 : The Siege Of Sarajevo
April. 09,2019
Concrete 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 2 : The Underwater Prison
April. 02,2019
An 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 1 : The Desert Ghost Fleet
March. 26,2019
The 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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