Building the Channel Tunnel (2019)
• June 12th, 2019 • 0h 45min
Documentary, TV Movie
Overview
The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea tunnel ever constructed? We hear from the men and women, who built this engineering marvel. Massive tunnel boring machines gnawed their way through rock and chalk, digging not one tunnel but three; two rail tunnels and a service tunnel. This was a project that would be privately financed; not a penny of public money would be spent on the tunnel. Business would have to put up all the money and take all the risks. This was also a project that was blighted by flood, fire, tragic loss of life and financial bust ups. Today, it stands as an engineering triumph and a testament to what can be achieved when two nations, Britain and France put aside their historic differences and work together.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Reimagining A Buffalo Landmark
Released on: 2019-04-12
Documentary, History, TV Movie
The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing...
Marine le Pen - The Last March?
Released on: 2017-01-16
Documentary, TV Movie
This film is an uncompromising portrait of a woman who no-one could have imagined in a position of p...
D-Day: The Untold Stories
Released on: 2019-06-02
Documentary, History, War
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this special presents the key events of the Allied inv...
Theory and Practice: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn
Released on: 2010-01-01
Documentary
This timely, bold set of one-on-one interviews presents two of the most venerable figures from the A...
Memory Books
Released on: 2008-05-01
Documentary
In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...
Starmania 78 - le best of
Released on: 1978-12-11
TV Movie, Music
Live concert of the french musical with original cast.
Les yeux dans les Bleus
Released on: 1998-07-14
Documentary
This documentary follows the French soccer team on their way to victory in the 1998 World Cup in Fra...
The Blood of Others
Released on: 1984-08-25
TV Movie, Romance, Drama, War, History
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for th...
Adolphe Appia Visionary of Invisible
Released on: 1988-09-11
Music, Documentary
The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in con...
Operation "Wedding"
Released on: 2017-10-19
Documentary, History
Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USS...
We
Released on: 2022-02-16
Documentary
An urban train link, the RER B, crosses Paris and its outskirts from north to south. A journey withi...
David
Released on: 1997-03-23
Adventure, Drama, TV Movie
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rou...
Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike
Released on: 2014-01-01
Documentary
In 2007, the Writers Guild of America, the Screenwriters Union, hit an impasse in their contract neg...
A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy
Released on: 1962-02-13
History, Documentary
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the First Lady ...
Murder on the Orient Express
Released on: 2001-04-22
Crime, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule...
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
Released on: 2022-03-09
Documentary, TV Movie, History
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Released on: 1927-09-23
Documentary
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works
Released on: 2019-06-09
Documentary, History
In 1943, in a circus tent in Burbank, CA, a bunch of revolutionary thinkers first gathered together ...
The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
Released on: 2004-02-18
History, Documentary
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...