Distributor:
Universal Entertainment Certificate: Exempt |
350 minuutes
Available to buy | 2 disc set Director: Extras: No
Producer:
Deborah Cadbury
Narrator:
Robert Lindsay
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Lavish
drama documentary series
detailing how 7 amazing feats of
engineering came to shape the
Industrial World; Isumbard
Kingdom Brunel’s building of
the largest ship ever built; the
building of the Brooklyn bridge;
Bell Rock Lighthouse in
Scotland; Joseph Bazalgette’s
building of the London sewerage
system; the story of the Panama
Canal; the building of the
transcontinental railway across
America and the story of the
Hoover Dam.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
In a
word – Superb! Made in the new style of dramatised documentary that
the BBC do so well, top quality acting, a voice over full of gravitas
from Robert Lindsay, the latest in computer generated graphics. It’s
hard to even pick a favourite of the seven featured on this 2 disc set
from Roadshow but the first episode featuring Isumbard Kingdom
Bruenl’s tragic attempt to build the world’s biggest ship is a piece
of quality drama in its own right (surely a classic BBC drama serial is
just waiting to be made on top of this engineering
genius),
the Sewer King
story of Joseph Bazalgette’s vision to being sanitation to the streets
of London is also an amazing
tale, but they are all amazing tales in their own way from The Brooklyn
Bridge to The Panama Canal all spell out the incredible ingenuity of man
when faced with daunting odds. Like the recent Pompeii story The Last Day
this is a must have for your collection.
