Engineering Movies

Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality...

Join the members of the historic Rosetta mission through the years as they launch, wait and then deploy the lander onto the comet...

BUILT FOR MARS: THE PERSEVERANCE ROVER goes behind the scenes at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to follow the birth of the Perseverance rover.

A promotional film for the Ford Company detailing the introduction of the Cosworth engine into Formula 1 in conjunction with Lotus.

Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering and human failure, the...

After 10 years of tests and 12 billion Euros invested, the state-of-the-art Airbus jet completed its first commercial flight in January 2015. We will...

The movie follows the life of Enrique Aet, an engineer whose main obsession is to improve communications between the Peruvian jungle and Lima.

For over three decades, NASA and an international team of scientists and engineers pushed the limits of technology, innovation, and perseverance to...

Nearly 200 years ago, the train revolutionized our lives. It redrew the maps of states and nations, and changed concepts of distance and time like no...

Documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer which charts the amazing and untold story of automata - extraordinary clockwork machines designed...

A feature on Soviet space exploration on the 50th anniversary of the Russian Socialist Revolution.

It's 1948 and hydro-electric power is transforming Scotland's Grampians.

David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.

Documentary where rich social history frames a spirited debate on the development of water infrastructure throughout the USA.

The historian investigates the discovery of a group of Viking graves in the eastern Baltic that date back over 1200 years, predating the established...

The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers, workers, Egyptians, and Soviets.

The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing new life as it undergoes restoration and...

They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago, thousands of women from Thunder Bay and the Prairies...

In Britain's darkest hour Winston Churchill assembles a team of eccentric geniuses to fight the Nazi menace by building bizarre brilliant weapons.