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Big, Bigger, Biggest

2008

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Canal Zone Jul 05, 2011

The Panama Canal is set to double its capacity almost a century after it opened. Find out why its success lies in four key breakthroughs that enable ever bigger ships to navigate landlocked areas.

EP2 Icebreaker Jul 19, 2011

Find out what made it possible for the world’s largest icebreaking ship to smash through solid ice a metre and a half thick and pulverise blocks of ice the size of a car with its huge propellers.

EP3 Metro Jul 12, 2011

Over 4 million people use the London Underground every day. Find out how four key inventions in a series of landmark metro systems helped it become the biggest subway in the Western world.

EP4 Prison Aug 09, 2011

Modern prisons are brimming with technology. Explore the inner workings and incredible stories behind four landmark prisons that allowed engineers to build safer, tougher and bigger prisons.

EP5 Tower Jul 26, 2011

China’s Canton Tower required great leaps in technology to build. Explore the way key historic towers like the Eiffel Tower and Washington Monument made these engineering breakthroughs possible.

EP6 Train Aug 02, 2011

France’s TGV has been pushed to 575 kilometres. Examine four iconic trains and the breakthroughs that enabled the development of the fastest train on the planet.
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Synopsis

Big, Bigger, Biggest is a British documentary television series which began airing in 2008. A total 20 episodes have been produced across 3 seasons.

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Diagonaldi Very well executed
2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
grantss Brilliant documentary series.Big, Bigger, Biggest each episode examines a current engineering marvel, ideally the biggest of that ever built. It then traces back all the leaps forward in technology and innovation, through looking at the then-marvels/"biggest"s of that type and the revolutionary progress they brought. Items covered include: tunnels, towers, oil rigs, bridges, telescopes, dams and cruise liners (to name but a few).Incredibly well researched. Well told too: you are never blinded by the maths or other theory involved, so most people should be able to follow. Very stirring stuff, as you come to appreciate just how innovative and intelligent the designers of each leap of progress were. Even the peripheral engineering reminds us of what a clever and resourceful age we live in, and how ingenious people can be.Good graphics and scaled-down practical experiments illustrate the phenomena and theories at work very well.So good, each episode makes me want to be an engineer...
vijay babu i have watched this episode in national geographic channel, and I downloaded all the episodes from internet .If you want to learn or know something you have to browse and download many files and you have to watch dozens of videos and you have to do a research to know about it.But in such cases this is something different there is a episode about space station .This episode narrates about the history and technology and the upgrades done over it in years,and the hurdles that the team faces to create it and how did they manage to find a solution for the problem with an excellent cg works.In the end of the episode you feel satisfied and you have a great feeling that you have learned and gained knowledge .Hats of to director and his team and the production unit for presenting an amazing episode. All things can be learned in just 50 minutes .