Summary
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.
Good for
- Family movie night
- Friends night
- Teens
Skip it if
- You want something to laugh at
Where to watch
Not streaming in United States. Where it is:
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At a glance
Time to watch it all
106 h
145 episodes, about 44 min each
An episode a night: about 5 months.
Reach
Streams in 9 countries, rent or buy in 2 more
First aired
2017
February 18, 2017
Still running
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United Kingdom
Rated
- TV-PGUnited States
Yes: it's rated TV-PG in the United States, and the viewing guide lists it for family nights.
What's in it
- ViolenceLittle or none
- Gore, disturbing imagesMild
- Frightening scenesLittle or none
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesMild
Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsFamily Movie NightFriends NightIntergenerationalPartner WatchPublic Viewing SafeSolo WatchTeensBackground WatchBinge-FriendlyDrop-in FriendlyThought-ProvokingNot listed for kids.
43 people
Tom WardSelf - Narrator145 episodes
Jim MeigsSelf112 episodes
Rob BellSelf111 episodes
Lynette NusbacherSelf97 episodes
Sascha AuerbachSelf92 episodes
Dominic SelwoodSelf87 episodes
Geoff WawroSelf70 episodes
Dougal JerramSelf53 episodes
Michele MitchellSelf51 episodes
Alicia Gutierrez-RomineSelf44 episodes
James CorumSelf41 episodes
Andrew GoughSelf39 episodes
Claire BarrattSelf37 episodes
Katherine LanddeckSelf37 episodes
Fran ScottSelf24 episodes
Jaega WiseSelf24 episodes
Alexis PedrickSelf22 episodes
Hadley MearesSelf21 episodes
Roma AgrawalSelf20 episodes
Onyeka NubiaSelf15 episodes
Shini SomaraSelf14 episodes
Dan DickrellSelf14 episodes
Nehemiah MabrySelf11 episodes
Luke PeperaSelf10 episodes
Production · 2
- Bruce Burgess Executive Producer
- David Caldwell-Evans Producer
Abandoned Engineering episodes
15 seasons · 145 episodes
Episodes
- S1 E1 Silent Cities, 7.3
- S1 E2 Mission: Space, 6.9
- S1 E3 Lost Bridges, 7.3
- S1 E4 Ghost Ships, 7.0
- S1 E5 Quest for Power, 7.2
- S1 E6 Roads to Nowhere, 7.6
- S2 E1 Hitler's Army Powerhouse, 7.8
- S2 E2 Britain's Sea Fort Complex, 7.5
- S2 E3 The Italian Dam Disaster, 7.4
- S2 E4 Battle of Britain Technology Facility, 7.3
- S2 E5 The Abandoned Nazi Railway, 7.6
- S2 E6 America's Jungle City, 8.0
- S2 E7 Germany's Lost Warship, 7.8
- S2 E8 Lost Highway in the Rainforest, 7.4
- S3 E1 England's Abandoned Village, 7.3
- S3 E2 The Siege Of Sarajevo, 7.3
- S3 E3 Hitler's Wonder Weapon Bunker, 7.2
- S3 E4 Germany's D-Day Fortress, 7.3
- S3 E5 The Desert Ghost Fleet, 7.4
- S3 E6 The Underwater Prison, 7.4
- S3 E7 A Ghost Town in Spain, 7.3
- S3 E8 Sabotage In The Mountains, 7.1
- S4 E1 The World's Strangest Ghost Town, 7.0
- S4 E2 Palace of Death, 7.3
- S4 E3 Guernsey Nazi Towers, 7.3
- S4 E4 Bodie USA, 7.2
- S4 E5 Tunnel to the Underworld, 6.9
- S4 E6 Escobar's Ruin, 7.1
- S4 E7 Villa De Vecci Rhodes, 7.5
- S4 E8 Pyramiden Norway, 7.4
- S4 E9 Behind the Berlin Wall Special, 7.1
- S4 E10 Bannock USA, 7.6
- S4 E11 Buckner Building Alaska, 7.6
- S4 E12 1936 Olympic Village Berlin, 7.4
- S5 E1 Disaster in the Desert, 7.1
- S5 E2 The Valkyrie Assassin, 7.3
- S5 E3 Escape from Devil's Island, 7.9
- S5 E4 Top Secret Nuclear Arsenal, 6.8
- S5 E5 A Nation Torn Apart, 7.6
- S5 E6 Ghosts of the Swamp, 7.6
- S5 E7 Death Behind Bars, 7.2
- S5 E8 Behind Enemy Lines, 7.5
- S6 E1 The Lost Pirate City, 8.2
- S6 E2 Forbidden Island, 7.4
- S6 E3 Blast Zone, 7.4
- S6 E4 North of the Wall, 7.6
- S6 E5 The World's Strangest Disaster Zones, 7.8
- S6 E6 Defenders of Liberty, 7.3
- S6 E7 Space Plane, 7.6
- S6 E8 Disaster on the 38th Parallel, 7.6
- S6 E9 Bunker Nation, 7.3
- S6 E10 The Human Zoo, 6.8
- S6 E11 Spike Island, 7.1
- S7 E1 Hollywood Heroes, 7.5
- S7 E2 Stalin's Subway, 8.1
- S7 E3 Disaster at the Maya Hotel, 7.5
- S7 E4 Murder Underground, 7.4
- S7 E5 El Dorado Canyon, 7.2
- S7 E6 The Mafia Bunker, 7.5
- S7 E7 Ruins of the Rust Belt, 7.3
- S7 E8 American Ghost Park, 7.1
- S7 E9 Fortress of the Sky, 7.1
- S7 E10 Catastrophe and Cover Up, 7.6
- S7 E11 Dead Sea Disaster, 7.5
- S7 E12 Global Icons, 7.8
- S8 E1 Heroes and Villains, 7.9
- S8 E2 Paradise Lost, 7.7
- S8 E3 A Royal Deception, 7.5
- S8 E4 Mafia Seaside Resort, 7.1
- S8 E5 The Giant Speaker, 7.2
- S8 E6 Cathedral of Sewage, 6.6
- S8 E7 The Secret Bunker, 7.4
- S8 E8 The Battle of San Pietro, 7.3
- S8 E9 Divine Intervention, 7.4
- S8 E10 Shadow of the Wars, 7.4
- S8 E11 Death in Paradise, 7.7
- S8 E12 Before the Crown, 7.6
- S9 E1 Megalomaniac's Palace, 6.9
- S9 E2 Jungle Fantasy Land, 6.4
- S10 E1 Raiders and Invaders, 7.2
- S10 E2 The Rock, 7.1
- S10 E3 Enemy at the Gates, 7.1
- S10 E4 Cowboy Mountain, 7.5
- S10 E5 Drone Wars, 7.0
- S10 E6 Moonshot, 7.0
- S10 E7 Rock and Ruin, 6.7
- S10 E8 Castle of the Occult, 7.2
- S10 E9 The Green Line, 7.3
- S10 E10 Blitz Spirit, 7.2
- S10 E11 An American Exodus, 7.0
- S10 E12 The Drop, 7.0
- S11 E1 Rock 'N' Roll Island, 7.2
- S11 E2 Penthouse Palace, 7.2
- S11 E3 Castle Kingdom, 7.3
- S11 E4 Fake News Fortress, 7.2
- S11 E5 The True Cross, 7.2
- S11 E6 Wonderland, 7.2
- S11 E7 K-Pop Dreamland, 6.9
- S11 E8 Blues Prison, 7.3
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