Modern Marvels
Season 1
Episode 3: The Panama Canal
TV-PGMar 04, 1994
Chronicles one of the most incredible engineering feats of all time: construction of the 51-mile canal that took 10 years to build and employed over 40,000 workers, 6,000 of whom died of yellow fever, malaria, and other horrors. An earlier, 9-year attempt by the French ended in failure and cost 20,000 lives.
Details
Details
Type
Documentary
Status
Returning Series
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English