Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (2003)

Directed by

Ron Cook, Robert Cavanah, Mark McGann, Jay Benedict

Genre

documentary film, docudrama

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 7 episodes

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This series tells the stories of seven major engineering projects from the Industrial Revolution. Each episode uses dramatized scenes and narration to show how these structures were built and the people behind them.

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What happens

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from 4 September 2003 (2003-09-04) to 16 October 2003 (2003-10-16) on BBC and was later released on DVD. The programme examines seven engineering feats that occurred since the Industrial Revolution. The same feats are covered in a companion book of the same name by producer Deborah Cadbury. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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