Abandoned Engineering (2021)
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- Synopsis:
Structures of steel and iron eerily stand unfinished after they were abandoned midway in construction, covered in weeds, moss and rust, the show explores what they could have been...Empty buildings and infrastructures are full of the echoes of real people and vanished lives, leaving many questions unanswered and mysteries unsolved. We explore the worlds strangest engineering projects that created empty silent cities...The Red Sands Sea Fort was originally built to protect London from the Nazi threat in 1945. Massive engineering for the time, seven steel boxes rise 80-feet out of the water at the mouth of the River Thames. Also investigated a 4,000 tonne rusted mass of steel in a field in Eastern Germany, an empty complex located in Philadelphia, and in North Dakota a sinister looking concrete pyramid dating back to the Cold War...A strange deserted mass of concrete lost in the Polish countryside, a City Scape in the heart of Detroit falling apart, disused and abandoned, the remains of a mountainside concrete structure with an explosive past, and a former top secret Soviet facility off the coast of Estonia...Bizarrely-shaped huts in India, once home to global superstars, are now eerily quiet and neglected, and a shattered compound in Colombia linked to a criminal mastermind...Abandoned Engineering travels to Chile, the Maltese capital Valleta, Havana and Germany, to reveal: honeymoon home of a young princess that offered her a glimpse of freedom; grand monuments designed by the most notorious dictator of the twentieth century; a sprawling industrial complex?the site of a ruthless disappearance; and?the artistic dream of?a revolutionary now in ruins... - Actors:
- Dominic Selwood, Rob Bell, Jim Meigs, Lynette Nusbacher, Sascha Auerbach, Claire Barratt, James S. Corum, Andrew Gough, Dougal Jerram, Geoffrey Wawro, Fran Scott, Shini Somara, Michele Mitchell, Roma Agrawal, Saul David, Daniel Dickrell, Klint Janulis, Tomoji Kobata, Philipp Aumann, Tatyana Vinogradova
- Directors:
- Luke Wales, Tom Williams, Tamsin Curry, James Wright, Annie Mackinder, Nick Chapman, Matthew Smith
- Producers:
- Luke Wales, Tom Williams, David Caldwell-Evans, Annie Mackinder, Matthew Smith
- Narrated By:
- Tom Ward
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Documentaries
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