Program Catalog
 | Megafactories: Boeing 747-8 In 2007 the mammoth Airbus A380 took the Boeing 747’s crown for size and capacity. A record Boeing held for over 37 years. Boeing wants its crown back, but it needs to get a new plane in the air, and ... |
 | Megafactories: Tata Nano Sir Ratan Tata is a man on a mission: to make India’s roads safer by getting people off motorbikes and into the world’s cheapest car – the Tata Nano. In India it’s common to see a family of four ridin... |
 | Megastructures: Eco Ark Turning Taiwan’s trash into a treasure. Following the mantra of “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle”, the Eco Ark pavilion is hailed as the world’s lightest, movable, breathable environmental achievement and s... |
 | Strike Force 1: Venom Quest The Strike Force team is Jamie and Richard - two scientists who never stray far from the action. This intrepid duo risks life and limb to shed light on some of the world’s most mysterious animals. Th... |
 | Strike Force 2: Shark Bait The Strike Force team is Jamie and Richard - two scientists who never stray far from the action. This intrepid duo risks life and limb to shed light on some of the world’s most mysterious animals. Th... |
 | Strike Force 3: Operation Sawfish The Strike Force team is Jamie and Richard - two scientists who never stray far from the action. This intrepid duo risks life and limb to shed light on some of the world’s most mysterious animals. Th... |
 | Megastructures: China's Smart Tower An architectural accomplishment like the world has never seen before. An innovative design, based on maximum functionality and efficiency, is ensuring that the Pearl River Tower, currently being built... |
 | Clash of the Continents 250 million years ago, our world was a harsh land of violent storms and endless deserts, which almost eradicated all life on the planet. It was dominated by a giant supercontinent, stretching from pol... |
 | Jurassic CSI Forget everything you thought you knew about dinosaurs. In National Geographic’s cutting edge new Dinosaur series, palaeontologist Dr. Phil Manning will show you dinosaurs as you have never seen them ... |
 | Megastructures: Singapore's Vegas Designed by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie and costing billions to build, Marina Bay Sands is set to secure Singapore's reputation as one of the world's greatest destinations. Situated on a mas... |
 | Inside Dubai Racecourse Covering seven square kilometers, Dubai's Meydan Racecourse will easily be the largest racecourse in the world. The sheer scale of this project is awe-inspiring and its imaginative design puts Meydan ... |
 | China Quake In 2008, China’s monster quake claimed 80,000 lives and destroyed five million buildings. In 2009 an international team of earthquake scientists head into the heart of China to decode the disaster. ... |
 | Expedition Antarctica Join a team of marine scientists as they embark on an unprecedented journey across the Great Southern Ocean and beyond to Antarctica. In this extreme environment, the stakes are high, but if successfu... |
 | Megastructures: Building Green Beijing As the 2008 Beijing Olympics draws near, a team of London designers and some of China's top green architects and engineers race against time to build a temporary meeting place for athletes and their f... |
 | Colossal Squid Since ancient times a hideous monster has haunted the dreams of sailors, striking fear in the hearts of even the most fearless seafarers. We now know this monster is more than a myth - it's the Colos... |
 | Man Made Marvels 201: Sydney Opera House Its breathtaking shape defied every engineering and construction rule in the book. The original plans were radical and impossible to build using existing technology, but the designers faced the challe... |
 | Man Made Marvels 202: Ultimate Casino The world's ultimate casino, the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, is the signature piece for an ambitious project creating one of the greatest resort destinations ever seen. The magnitude and scale of thi... |
 | Man Made Marvels 203: Kuala Lumpur Flood Control Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's Capital, is under siege from flash floods, powerful forces of nature that bring the city to its knees. The source: severe thunderstorms that pound the city for months on end. ... |
 | Man Made Marvels 204: Songdo Future City Imagine building a city for 300,000 people from scratch in just ten years. Only 45 kilometres from central Seoul a team of architects, engineers and developers have been given a rare opportunity to bu... |
 | Man Made Marvels 205: Changi Airport Singapore's Changi Airport is revered in travel circles as the holy grail of airports. Renowned as a trendsetter in airport technology, Changi now faces stiff competition from some of Asia's newer air... |
 | Man Made Marvels 206: Singapore's Marina Barrage Lying between the mighty Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, the island city of Singapore is surrounded by water yet struggles with practically non-existent inland freshwater resources. In a battle... |
 | Megastructures: Beijing Water Cube When Beijing hosts the 2008 Olympics, the eyes of the world will be riveted on the National Swimming Centre - aka the Water Cube. We go behind the scenes to discover more about a building destined to ... |
 | Megastructures: China's Ultimate Port Over the centuries China has produced some of the world's greatest engineering feats from The Great Wall to The Forbidden City. The Deep Water Port at Yangshan is on track to becoming China's ... |
 | Megastructures: Shanghai Super Tower What do you get if you take sixty thousand tons of steel, 260,000 cubic meters of concrete, 2000 dedicated Chinese workers and the best design brains in the business? The Shanghai World Financial Cent... |
 | Man Made Marvels 101: Taiwan's Hsuehshan Tunnel The island of Taiwan has become one of the great economic powerhouses of modern Asia, but it is also an island divided by a vast mountain range. The path to prosperity and national unity rests in conq... |
 | Man Made Marvels 102: Okinawa Aquarium When the government of the Japanese island of Okinawa decided to construct a new aquarium for the 21st Century their objective was to "bring the sea to the land". The challenge was to build a beautifu... |
 | Man Made Marvels 103: HII-A Space Rocket The Japanese space industry is about to reach another milestone. From its base on Tanegashima Island the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency is counting down to the latest launch of the H-IIA - the ... |
 | Man Made Marvels 104: Taipei 101 Skyscrapers are buildings that go beyond functionality, they are icons of wealth, prosperity, progress and industrial might. One Asian skyscraper has topped them all. Taipei 101 - a record-breaking me... |
 | Man Made Marvels 105: Korean Express South Korea is one of the world's economic powerhouses, but to remain competitive, the internal transport infrastructure needs to be improved. In the mid-1990s the South Korean government decided a hi... |
 | Man Made Marvels 106: Petronas Towers Centuries-old design meets cutting edge architecture in Petronas Towers, the centrepiece of the Kuala Lumpur skyline. One of the world's tallest buildings, its 88 storeys stretch 452 metres above grou... |
