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Extreme Machines (1997)

Extreme Machines poster
Genre
documentary
Country
United States
Length
6 seasons, 60 episodes
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series looks at large machines and how they work. Some episodes also cover accidents involving those machines.

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What happens

Extreme Machines was a documentary series created by Pioneer Productions for The Learning Channel and Discovery Channel. The series focused mainly on machines although in some episodes of Season 4 and Season 5, it also looked at disasters involving them. The series was largely narrated by William Hootkins. The show made also made use of scale miniatures in many episodes, managed by David Barlow. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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