Tom Ward
Self - Narrator
Abandoned Engineering (2017)
Series 5
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.
Released Feb. 18, 2017
Episode 44 min
10+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.engineering, tmdb.architecture-history, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.show
Production Companies: Like A Shot Entertainment
Network: U&Yesterday
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S5E1 - Disaster in the Desert
The desert town that faced a disaster of biblical proportions. Plus, vast coastal ruins that reveal a past once wiped from history.
Jan. 21, 2020, midnight
S5E2 - The Valkyrie Assassin
The underground base with the power to destroy a nation, the site linked with an attempt to kill a dictator, and an ancient world discovered in the American wilderness.
Jan. 28, 2020, midnight
S5E3 - Escape from Devil's Island
Claustrophobic prison cells that contain a story worthy of international acclaim, and a vast mountainside complex that held the power to change the world.
Feb. 4, 2020, midnight
S5E4 - Top Secret Nuclear Arsenal
A secretive underground base that concealed the power to destroy nations, and a sprawling industrial relic clinging to the edge of an unforgiving waterfall.
Feb. 11, 2020, midnight
S5E5 - A Nation Torn Apart
Including an exploration of a marooned iron-clad structure in Portland, off the coast of England, that hides a dramatic story of war and resilience; Pratt Cotton Gin Mill, a vast facility in the heart of America's deep south that helped tear apart a nation; and a Mediterranean island fortress at Spinalonga, Greece, that became the scene of a dark conspiracy.
Feb. 18, 2020, midnight
S5E6 - Ghosts of the Swamp
Including an exploration of forgotten relics from the defence of America's homeland, at Fort Jackson, USA, concealed by the banks of the Mississippi River; a concrete behemoth at Lorient Sub Base, on the coast of France, that proved invulnerable to enemy bombardment; and a ghostly ruin at Gwrych that is now home to a haunting presence.
Feb. 25, 2020, midnight
S5E7 - Death Behind Bars
An American prison for the violent and deranged with links to an infamous cult leader, and a cavernous tunnel network in France offering shelter from unrelenting bombardment.
March 3, 2020, midnight
S5E8 - Behind Enemy Lines
An Albanian village home to Allied secret agents, devastated for resisting the Nazi war machine, and a notorious asylum in America that enforced lobotomies on a terrifying scale.
March 10, 2020, midnight
Network: U&Yesterday
Episode Runtime: 44 min.
Season Runtime: 5884 min.
Released: Feb. 18, 2017
Last Air Date: Nov. 26, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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