Megastructures: Itaipu Dam
Film Summary
60:00 mins
People & Places
/ Science & Nature
South America
Brief Summary
The Itaipu Dam is the world's largest hydroelectric power plant and a triumph of giant-scale engineering. This programme reveals how engineers and, at the peak of construction, over forty thousand Brazilian and Paraguayan workers, toiled around the clock to create this immense structure. We follow the story as they lay millions of tons of concrete, divert the course of the world's 7th largest river and move thousands of people and animals, in order to bring power to millions of people spanning two countries. This is the true-life story of mankind's journey to overcome apparently impossible odds, mould nature and break construction and engineering records to produce the world's most powerful dam.
Year Filmed: 2004
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