Modern Marvels
Season 1 • Episode 3: The Panama Canal • Watch with subtitles
Episode 3: The Panama Canal
March 4, 1994 • 44 min
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.
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