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When Big Things Go Wrong

Modern technology allows us to build incredible structures like giant tankers, mammoth skyscrapers and colossal bridges. But, with enormous size comes enormous risk, and when big things go wrong, they go really wrong. The HISTORY Channel's new series examines the catastrophic result of some of the world's worst engineering disasters caught on tape. Each episode breaks down shocking footage from collapses and collisions to reveal the shocking answers to the question, what happened?

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Cast & Crew See All

Robert Glenister
Self - Narrator
Rob Bell
Self - Mechanical Engineer
Mocean Melvin
Narrator

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Doomed from the Start

40 mins

Italy suffers one of the worst engineering disasters when the Morandi bridge suddenly collapses; examining what failures of a Brazilian dam, a Manila high rise, and a building in Jerusalem reveal about the collapse.

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