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- Through the magic of 3D and IMAX cameras, audiences everywhere can take a mind-blowing trip through one of the seven wonders of the modern world in PANAMA CANAL 3D: A LAND DIVIDED A WORLD UNITED, revealing not only its vast scope, but plunging down into the locks and mechanical operations, boarding the giants sailing the Canal, gliding airborne over the entire country, the Panama railway, exploring by native canoe, discovering the unexpected tropical rain forest beauty and wildlife. The film sweeps from the days when Conquistadores struggled through a water-soaked quagmire to the 19th-Century French canal-digging debacle to the American engineering achievement that revolutionized shipping and tropical medicine. It's also about the visionary present, documenting efforts by Panama to expand the 100-year-old waterway to accommodate post-panamax ships. It concludes with a fusion of old and new Panama, its skyscrapers, its culture, a rising economic nerve of Central America.
- This film chronicles the remarkable story of what was the largest and most ambitious engineering project in history, in one of the most hostile environments on earth. It recounts the long history of the dream of an isthmian canal, and tells how the collapse of an ambitious French canal effort, doomed by poor planning and rampant disease, provided an opening for a United States eager to announce its expanded presence on the world stage.
- Five shorts spanning a century on lives impacted by the Panama Canal.
- The Panama Canal, built by the United States on Panamanian territory, turned at once into a symbol of American power and Panama's national identity.
- The picture opens at Colon on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal. Here we see the new government wharves and the good ship "Fram," patiently waiting to put the crowning touch on her life of splendid achievement, by being among the first vessels to pass through the completed canal. From Colon we pass through the sea-level part of the canal to the series of locks at Gatun, that we may be in time to watch the first boats passing through these gigantic elevators. After we have seen the tugboats, filled with their distinguished guests, raised to a height of seventy feet above sea-level, we emerge into Lake Gatun, the great artificial pond which has been created by the Gatun Dam. We then get brief glimpses of the Pacific end of the canal, the fortified islands in Panama Bay, the shipyards at Balboa, and the completed locks at Miraflores. Then we return to the narrow strip of earth which until October 9 held back the waters of Lake Gatun from the Culebra Cut, the Gamboa Dike. Nearly eighteen thousand pounds of dynamite were planted in this dam in the morning. At one minute after two in the afternoon. President Wilson pressed a telegraph key in Washington, and instantly a tremendous tower of mud, smoke and water lifted itself out of the soil of Panama. When the smoke cleared away, the waters of Lake Gatun could be seen rushing down into the great cut which had been prepared for them, and the last step in the cleaving of a continent was completed.
- As the film starts we approach the canal from the Pacific side looking up the entrance. We next take up the operation connected with distributing the dirt from the dirt trains and spreading it along the line, etc. The film depicts the most wonderful piece of engineering work which the world will never forget.
- The most gigantic engineering project in the world's history is almost completed. The Milaflores locks and the spillway are opened for the first time and in this film the camera gives a comprehensive idea of the enormity of the undertaking which will link the Atlantic and Pacific,
- The construction of the Panama Canal, from the first failed attempt by the French through the successful completion by the United States under the stewardship of President Teddy Roosevelt, was one of the most amazing engineering feats of the last several hundred years. This remarkable documentary tells its entire history.
- Animated drawings illustrate the mechanical workings of the Panama Canal.
- The construction of the Panama Canal by the United States Government is an engineering accomplishment to which the whole world is looking forward. Comparatively few persons know how it is being done. Time, distance, prevents familiarity with its workings. This panoramic film, giving a full and comprehensive view of the great achievement being performed there and depicting its general appearance, will enlighten those who are anxious to know more about it.
- 200349mTV-PG8.6 (42)TV EpisodeFrench engineer Ferdinand De Lesseps has a plan to build a canal across Panama.
- Daily, ships the size of a city block transport goods through the Panama Canal to make the 50-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Officials have asked a team of European and American engineers to compete for a winning lock design.
- Chronicles one of the most incredible engineering feats of all time--the 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.
- A study of the Panama Canal, which ranks as one of the world's greatest engineering feats. Included: the technology and manpower required to build the waterway, which links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- 1990–TV Episode
- 2009–2014TV Episode
- Segments: 1) Panama Canal Railway - Panama City, Panama; 2) Zane Trace Model Railroad Club - HO Gauge; 3) Black River Railroad - Ringoes, New Jersey; 4) Jim McClellan - Historian/Photographer.
- Once the largest and most expensive engineering project the world had ever seen, the Panama Canal is quickly becoming obsolete. Danny Forster explores the massive expansion commissioned for $5 billion.
- A story of building the Panama Canal, one of the most difficult and challenging construction projects in history
- 2008–Podcast Episode
- 2008–Podcast Episode
- 2015– 1h 7mPodcast Episode
- 2009–2014TV Episode
- From PBS and American Experience - On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower.