Modern Marvels - Season 13

Season 13
Episodes

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Fire

Cotton

Engineering Disasters (18)
Engineering disasters highlighted include a coal mine in China, a crane collapse in Milwaukee, ground water contaminated with gasoline additives, and the hazards of radiation. Also profiled are the environmental disasters that plagued the Salton Sea in California and the Aral Sea in Asia.

Candy
This program explains how some of the more popular candies are made starting with the raw ingredients through the production process. It all starts with chocolate then move on to red hots, jelly beans, salt water taffy licorice and some special candies just for adults.

Weird Weapons: The Axis

Nature Tech: Avalanches

Engineering Disasters: New Orleans

Leather

Engineering Disasters (19)
The background into the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, two Boeing 737 crashes, a nuclear disaster near Los Angeles, and an oil storage facility.

Insulation

Hi-Tech Hitler

Shovels

Drilling

'80's Tech
Technology from the 1980s is remembered, including early cell phones and CD players; the Sony Walkman; and personal computers. Also: comments by Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak; and a tour of the Computer History Museum in California.

Ben Franklin Tech

Copper Kings

Heavy Metals: Copper, Uranium, Chromium, Lead, Nickel And Zinc

Money

BBQ Tech

High Explosives

Pirate Tech

Boneyard: Where Machines End Their Lives

World's Biggest Machines (5)

Super Tools: Skyscraper

Mummy Tech

Batteries

Water

Levees

Copper

Cola Wars

Building In The Name Of God

Shotguns

Renewable Energy
Global problems require global solutions. Modern Marvels: Renewable Energy, a one-hour History Channel documentary, shows how the combined forces of wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, wave and tidal power are ready to move the world beyond oil, coal and other 19th Century technologies.

Horsepower

Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway

Stealth & Beyond: Air Stealth

Cities Of The Underworld

Ink

Distilleries (2)

Stealth & Beyond: Sea Stealth

Tomcat Sunset

Tobacco

World's Strongest (1)

Breakfast Tech

Wine

Supermarket

The AK-47

Snow

Harvesting (2)

Engineering Disasters (20)
The story behind BP's Texas City oil refinery explosion in 2005, the 2001 crash of an American Airlines flight, and the Skylab space station.

Nuts

Tea

Christmas Tech

Wind
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The Studio
As movies struggle to stay alive and relevant, Matt and his core team of infighting executives battle their own insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films. With their power suits masking their never-ending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting, and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe. As someone who eats, sleeps, and breathes movies, it's the job Matt's been pursuing his whole life, and it may very well destroy him.

MobLand
With the most powerful clients in Europe, MobLand will see family fortunes and reputations at risk, odd alliances unfold, and betrayal around every corner; and while the family might be London's most elite fixers today, the nature of their business means there is no guarantee what's in store tomorrow.
MobLand follows two generations of gangsters, the businesses they run, the complex relationships they weave and the man they call upon to fix their problem.

Daredevil: Born Again
Matt Murdock finds himself on a collision course with Wilson Fisk when their past identities begin to emerge.