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So you didn't plan to be spending the weekend inside. Or maybe you did, but post-Holiday television is even more terrible than you had initially anticipated.
No worries! Netflix to the rescue!
For cabin-feverish engineers and engineering students out there, here's a quick run-down of the best engineering movies on Netflix.
(If you already have a Netflix account, just click the titles below to begin streaming immediately.)
Engineering Television Shows & Documentaries
Extreme Engineering (2003-2006)
Host Danny Forster explores the world's most magnificent feats of engineering on this Discovery Channel series. Watch structures seemingly impossible to build rise, crews regularly defying nature and other awe-inspiring creations of extreme engineering.
The episodes available to stream on Netflix include:
* Season 1: "Widening the Panama Canal," "Boston's Big Dig," "Building Hong Kong's Airport," "Tunneling Under the Alps," "Iceland Tunnels," "Container Ships," "Oakland Bay Bridge," and "Venice Flood Gates."
* Season 2: "Turning Torso," "Millau Viaduct," "Tokyo's Sky City," "Transatlantic Tunnel," "Subways in America," "Bridging the Bering Strait."
* Season 3: "Cooper River Bridge," "Excavators," "Offshore Oil," "City in a Pyramid," "Holland's Barriers."
* Season 4: "Woodrow Wilson Bridge," "Gotthard Tunnel," "Dubai Ski Resort," "Operation Snohvit," "The El Cajon Dam," "Hong Kong Cable Car."
Length: 45 minutes per episode
Netflix Average User Rating: 3.8 stars
MythBusters (2003-2011)
If you haven't heard of this show you may have been living under a rock for the last ten years. Hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman take their viewers on an eye-opening -- and often explosive -- journey as they examine some of the most commonly held beliefs in popular science and culture.
The appeal to engineers? They regularly blow things up and perform fun experiments like testing the tensile strength of duct tape. With a car.
Now that's entertainment.
Length: 45 minutes per episode