Shipping the World

Season 1 • Episode 2: Moving Mountains • Watch with subtitles

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Moving Mountains

Episode 2: Moving Mountains

November 26, 2019 • 60 min

We explore the incredible record-breaking ships built to move massive volumes of cargo and the history of invention and engineering that defined the industry. In the early years of the 20th century, ocean vessels became a site of competition between nations. Who could build the biggest and fastest ships. It was in this race that early record-breakers were built. Ships like the Lusitania, the Olympic and the Titanic.

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