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Original language(s)
  
English

Original network
  
Discovery Channel

Narrated by
  
William Hootkins

7.2/10
IMDb

Running time
  
60 minutes

First episode date
  
1997

Language
  
English

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Theme music composer
  
Monc (Studio) Greg Molesworth Roy Farnan

Executive producer(s)
  
Louise Salkow Mark Molesworth

Producer(s)
  
Alice Harper Brian Leckey

Genres
  
Documentary film, Special Interest

Similar
  
Extreme Engineering, How Do They Do It?, How It's Made, Megastructures, Mega Builders

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Extreme Machines is a television series aired on Discovery Channel.

Contents

Premise

The program feature some of the largest created man-made machines on earth. Like a container ship, Excavators, and Cranes.

As taken from the official Canadian webpage for Discovery Channel:

Submarines
See how today's nuclear submarines play an integral role in U.S. national defense.
Oil Rigs
See the final stages of the construction of a 50,000-ton oil rig in Nova Scotia.
Military Planes
See profiles of jet fighters including the F-15 Eagle and the X35-B, both technologically advanced aircraft.
Flight Power
Experience the exciting and flamboyant world of aviation; unusual aircraft and man's most extreme methods of flying; a home-built plane powered with a lawnmower engine; NASAs solar powered planes; the Harrier Jump Jet.
Carriers
Hop aboard the U.S. Navy's huge floating fortress the John C. Stennis; profiling a variety of other carriers from the U.S. Marines to the British Navy; see carriers in a variety of temperatures from the equator to the Arctic.
Mega Trucks
Explore the serious business of transportation to the thrills and spills of truck racing; a look at the New York fire brigade in action whose trucks are so long they need an extra driver at the back; a truck which doubles up as a TV studio.
Earth Breakers
Journey towards the centre of the earth inside the deepest mine in the U.S.; the fire that broke out in the Channel Tunnel between the U.K. and France; what happens in a mine explosion.
Tanks
Gripping archive footage documents tanks in action from the First World War to Desert Storm; the most advanced tanks in the world today; a glimpse of the claustrophobic world of the tank crew; US Future Combat System.
The Landspeed Record
Jump Jet
Daring Aviators
Roller Coasters

References

Extreme Machines Wikipedia