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Three-part documentary series chronicling the lives and achievements of a generation of great Victorian engineers. Told through the rivalries of two families, the Stephensons and the Brunels, it also features Thomas Telford, James Nasmyth and Richard Trevithick. Close collaboration and bitter competition between them produced the colossal monuments of the nineteenth century - a time when engineers were superheroes.