The Engineering That Built the World

Two master road builders spend decades struggling to create a motorway system that connects every city and town in America.

France and America compete to build a path just 80km long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; it will cost 30 thousand lives, $600 million dollars, and require overcoming obstacles from mudslides to malaria to bankruptcy.

After the London Underground becomes the first subway system in the world, visionary engineers in New York and Boston vie to build the first one in America.

A century before the internet, two brave visionaries, Collin Perry and Cyrus Field, endure failure and heartache while risking everything to connect the United States to the rest of the world with a cable under the ocean.