Engineering Movies

Classic Fighter – the story of the great piston-engined fighters of World War Two. A tribute to the men who flew them, and to the men and women...

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

The mavericks who pioneered the modern pit stop made it a raceday staple that takes less than two seconds.

An engineering dropout who traps himself in one trouble or the other, meets a wonderful woman and her cousin who changes his life.

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

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

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

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

The Antonov AN-225 Mriya, the world's largest cargo plane and the pride of Ukraine, was destroyed in a Russian attack on Hostomel airport near Kyiv...

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

Kenshi Tokunaga runs an IT company in Tokyo. Due to a big company, he has a hard time in hiring engineers. He decides to find engineers for his...

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

The Sealab project, launched in 1969 off the shore of northern California, was the brainchild of a country doctor turned naval pioneer who dreamed of...

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

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

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

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

Join self confessed petrol-head Guy Martin as he learns about the alternative to the internal combustion engine, Electric. In this TV special, Guy...

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