Dirty Great Machines features the biggest, most awe-inspiring and technologically advanced equipment known to man. From excavators to monster maritime machines and mighty drills, witness the incredible equipment in action as they take on the world's most challenging projects.

Watch as architects, historians and engineers explore if modern day innovations could be applied to recreate iconic building projects, or if fundamental construction techniques have been lost to time.

Alaska is notorious for its rugged terrain and brutal winters. But with the help of colossal equipment and machines, residents are able to not only endure, but thrive and enjoy among the sub-zero temperatures, steep mountainous terrain and fragile–sometimes deadly–ice.

Have you ever wondered how aluminum foil is made? From adhesive bandages to contact lenses, find out how many of the everyday objects we use become the things they are.

On Long Island, Jimmy’s Junk is the premiere junkyard for the subculture of high-end inventors, backyard builders and antique pickers constantly looking for missing parts to complete their passion projects.

Go inside the incredible machinery behind these everyday objects to see their extraordinary inner workings.

Made By Destruction travels around the globe to explore how everything from obsolete airplanes to empty bottles are being split apart, stripped down, melted, shredded and re-invented in ingenious and extraordinary ways.

After years of design, debate, and delays, America's greatest skyscraper and symbol of rebirth is finally rising skyward. Take an inside look at the rebuilding of the new World Trade Center and the 9/11 Memorial. Can it all be completed before the tragedy's ten-year anniversary?

Years after mankind's first steps on the lunar surface, reaching the Moon is still a metaphor for an impossible journey. While astronauts who walked on the Moon became household names, those who created the machines that made their journeys possible have been forgotten.

Buckle up as Richard Hammond takes viewers on the ride of their lives to spotlight engineering at its finest with the biggest structures in the world.

Every mystery and danger of the sea is a technological challenge waiting to be overcome. From mega holiday cruises to harvesting power, this exploration of the sea unlocks the ultimate challenges of extreme maritime environments.

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X-Machines takes a look at the largest and most technologically advanced machines from around the world.

Climb aboard rescue helicopters with paramedics and airborne doctors of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance crew as they race to rescue the badly injury and assist the critically ill in some of England's most unreachable landscapes.

Meet the dedicated maintenance crews who race against the clock to ensure critical infrastructures are operating as designed every day.

New discoveries in the Amazon are revealing evidence of a long-lost civilization that built giant cities of untold treasures; with the help of cutting-edge tech and archaeology, experts investigate the clues these mysterious people left behind.