Shipping the World

Shipping the World

20191 season

Documentary

Overview

International trade has been ferried around the world via boat for centuries. If the business of shipping stopped tomorrow, half the world would starve, and the other half would freeze. A testament of humanity's will to tame the elements and expand our reach; shipping has pioneered new technologies, revolutionized the global economy and reshaped the world as we know it.

Episodes

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1000 Days of Fear: The Deadly Race at Los Alamos
MythBusters
Mega Manufacturing
Hot Roads - The World's Most Dangerous Roads
Rise of the Machines
Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream
Ancient Impossible
Speed
Extreme Engineering
Bridging the Expanse
Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines
Building the Impossible
Time Scanners
Air Warriors
The Secret Life of Machines
Concorde: The Race for Supersonic
Reckoning: The Political Economy of Canada
Empire with David Olusoga
Top Trumps
Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections