• click here to return to the homepage •
Home > Categories > Entertainment > Television > Seven Wonders of the Industrial World review
Recreating their stories of burning ambition, extravagant dreams, passion and rivalry as great minds clashed, this programme delves into the history of seven epic monuments spanning the industrial revolution.
Using spectacular CGI, the seven stories that are revealed here are: the SS Great Eastern; the London sewer system; the Bell Rock Lighthouse; the US Transcontinental Railway; the Panama Canal; the Hoover Dam; and the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Time Traveller
Niu Sila
Red Dwarf - Series 6
Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius - Sea of Trouble
The Two Ronnies - Series 2
Hi-5 : Santa Claus is Coming!
South Pacific
Pyro Professionals Choice pack
Rick Steins Spain
Doctor Who: The End of Time
Banshee - season 3
The X-Files: Season Three
Life Story - Many Lives, One Epic JourneyProduct reviews...
Review by: tucker (Karl)
Dated: 6th of October, 2004
As a bit of a geek at heart, and a collector of trivia, I often enjoy watching doco's as casual viewing. You'd be surprised how interesting learning the 'inside story' of the everyday world can be. So it was with great feeling of "Awww HELL!", when I accidentally caught the tail-end of the episode on The Panama Canal on TV recently, that I realised I had been missing a really good series.
Imagine my joy to discover that, even before the series finishes on TV, I could watch all 7 episodes, and on DVD too! Many thanks to Roadshow for their wonderfully-timed courier parcel. So, on went the TV, into the PS2 went the discs (2 disc set), and down I sat to watch the history of some of humanity's greatest engineering achievements.
Wonderfully reproduced, with the seamless grace of CGI complimenting the wonderful acting, I was entranced as I watched the Bell Rock Lighthouse being built, the Panama Canal being dug, washed away, and dug again, and the trials and tribulations of the Brooklyn Bridge and it's sub-standard rust-infested wire cables, etc. (Makes you wonder why people still drive on it, knowing it's construction history).
Overall, this has to be a stunning addition to any serious "What Went On" buff, like me. It sits in proud place next to my collection on Great Minds of History.
Random listing from 'Entertainment'...
A love story in reverse: How I Met Your Mother is a fresh new comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he fell in love.
When Ted's best friend Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) decide to tie the knot, it sparks the search for his own Miss Right. Helping him in his quest is his bar-hopping "wing-man" Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), a confirmed bachelor with plenty of wild schemes for picking up women. Ted's ... more...
All trademarks, images and copyrights on this site are owned by their respective companies.
KIWIreviews is an independent entity, part of the Knock Out News Group. This is a free public forum presenting user opinions on selected products, and as such the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinion of kiwireviews.nz and are protected under New Zealand law by the "Honest Opinion" clause of the Defamation Act of 1992. KIWIreviews accepts no liability for statements made on this site, on the premise that they have been submitted as the true and honest opinions of the individual posters. In most cases, prices and dates stated are approximate and should be considered as only guidelines.
"We don't have much money to do this, so we're going to have to think."
Sir Ernest Rutherford
