Panama_Canal:_Gateway_to_the_American_Century

应用科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2011 年出品，是 PBS American Experience 系列之一。

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• 中文片名 ：

• 中文系列名：PBS 美国印象 / PBS 美国人经历

• 英文片名 ：Panama Canal: Gateway to the American Century

• 英文系列名：PBS American Experience

• 电视台 ：PBS

• 地区 ：美国

• 语言 ：英语

• 时长 ：83 min

• 版本 ：DVD

• 发行时间 ：2011

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On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world’s two largest oceans and signaling America’s emergence as a global superpower. This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film using an extraordinary archive of photographs and footage, interviews with canal workers and firsthand accounts of life in the Canal Zone, unravels the remarkable story of one of the world’s most significant technological achievements.

Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in human history. It literally required moving mountains, in one of the most challenging environments on earth, breaking the back of the great range that connects North and South America. This 2-hour program tells the epic story of one of the great engineering triumphs of all time, and one of the most expensive, in both money and lives. It weaves together the stories of the powerful men whose decisions shaped the enterprise, including larger-than-life characters such as Ferdinand de Lesseps and Theodore Roosevelt, with the stories of the ordinary laborers from Jamaica and Barbados whose labor and sacrifice actually dug the canal. Along the way it tells a story of innovation that literally changed the course of history.