Countdown to Collision

Episodes

Countdown to Collision: Airport UK

With 200,000 tonnes of freight passing through it every year, Stansted is one of Europe’s busiest cargo hubs.

Countdown to Collision: Mega Port Rotterdam

With 430 million tons of cargo passing through its harbours every year, Rotterdam Port is the biggest in Europe.

Countdown to Collision: Troll A Norway

Sitting in the North Sea, 65 kilometres off Norway, Troll A is one of the biggest gas platforms in the world.

Countdown to Collision: Mega Dam Brazil

The World’s most powerful hydroelectric dam, Itaipu, lies on the jungle-covered border between Brazil and Paraguay.

Countdown to Collision: Mega Mine Australia

At 600 metres deep and nearly 4 kilometres long, Super Pit is the biggest open mine in Australia.

Countdown to Collision: Arctic Icebreaker

In the Arctic Circle, a highly advanced ship, the Timofey Guzhenko, risks heavy ice and treacherous conditions to reach the world’s Northernmost oil offloading platform.

Countdown to Collision: Sao Paulo Metro - Metro de Sao Paulo

This film follows the hard-pressed team of metro workers as they race against the clock to get everyone to work on time.

Countdown to Collision: Cargo Train

This documentary follows the dynamic team of railway workers as they race against the clock to get the three kilometre-long train to the port on time.

Countdown to Collision: Sao Paulo Metro - Metro de Sao Paulo

Every weekday morning a million commuters pour into the Sao Paulo metro, the world’s most crowded subway. This film follows the hard-pressed team of metro workers as they race against the clock to get everyone to work on time. Stunning CGI animation reveals how six key engineering inventions prevent this massive operation grinding to a halt. Overnight, a crack maintenance crew scans the track for faults using a technology more commonly used to scan pregnant women; as the trains start running, ingenious radio signalling replaces drivers, and squeezes more trains onto the track; at overcrowded stations, intelligent platform doors prevent crowd surges pushing people onto the rails; and to prevent a deadly fire, technicians fill a subway station with smoke to test Sao Paulo metro’s revolutionary smoke extractors. But will these modern devices do what’s needed to get a million commuters to work on time and enable the metro workers to beat the COUNTDOWN.