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Bait Car |
"Bait Car" is described as The Fast and the Furious meets "Taxicab Confessions" as we see what happens when real car theives are caught in the act. Putting temptation directly in their path, police lure criminals with a high-tech bait car, rigged with hidden cameras and sohpisticated radio trackers. We'll be there for all the action-from the moment the car is stolen to the inevitable bust. This video has two parts! (More Info) Categories: Law Enforcement, Automotive Duration: 07:37:29 Date Added: 2010-12-05 00:00:00 Views: 437 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here!  Add To Playlist
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Cops Uncut 4 |
Cops Uncut is a crazy look at policing in the US, narrated by the funny Quentin Wilson. Each week, the Cops Uncut team would show videos of "Kamikaze crooks" speeding, careering down the wrong side of the road, and people just generally doing stupid things in the car. The show would also pick on bad practices by the police.
The best thing about the show was the Police Academy stuff, where Quentin would talk you through what the police or the perp was doing wrong, it often is funny wit (More Info) Categories: Law Enforcement, Automotive, Disaster Duration: 00:23:41 Date Added: 2010-12-16 00:00:00 Views: 582 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Crash - Carnage |
From the UK Documentary Series CRASH: Carnage. This episode gives a brief history of car safety, showing how our love of the car soon became tarnished by a massive road toll in the 1950s and 60s and the designed in faults and dangers that were killing and injuring motorists at speeds as low as 10mph. The rise of consumerism in the 60s & 70s brought huge changes to the way automakers and governments thought about car safety and it is now a huge part of automotive engineering design. This (More Info) Categories: Automotive, Disaster Duration: 00:49:39 Date Added: 2010-11-28 00:00:00 Views: 454 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Crash - Fatal Attraction |
From the UK Documentary Series CRASH: Episode 2 of 3: Fatal Attraction. Looks at the role of driver behavior and human error in Car Crashes & Fatalities. -Driver Behavior & Driver Error (Part 1) -Driver Skill, Driver Reaction & Pedestrians (Part 2) -Taking Risks & The Feeling of Immortality (Part 3) -Concentration & Distractions (Part 4) -Safety improvements vs. higher risks (Part 5) -Lethal Combination & Fatal Attraction (Part 6) Automotive, Disaster Duration: 00:50:31 Date Added: 2011-02-20 00:00:00 Views: 340 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Crash - What Happened? |
From the UK Documentary Series CRASH: What Happened? Forensic investigation & the role of the car crash detective to determine what happened to cause a fatal crash, the impact of a crash on the human body and the role of the police, rescuers and paramedics and car designers in saving crash victims. -The Car Crash Detective & Causes of Crashes (Part 1) -N125: Worlds deadliest road (Part 2) -Crash Scene Reconstruction (Part 3) -Forensic Evidence Left after a crash (More Info) Categories: Automotive, Disaster Duration: 00:50:34 Date Added: 2010-11-25 00:00:00 Views: 320 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Cutting Edge - A46 Killer Road |
The A46 in Lincolnshire is known as one of Britain’s most dangerous roads. This uncompromising biography of a ‘killer road’ includes moving interviews with people who have lost loved ones to accidents along the infamous black-spot and examines how a split second decision can change lives forever. (More Info) Categories: Automotive, Disaster Duration: 00:48:16 Date Added: 2010-11-25 00:00:00 Views: 394 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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IRT Deadliest Roads - Crumbling Roads |
After receiving more good news from home, Rick decides to stay. He and Lisa drive higher into the Himalayas than ever before with fragile statues of a Hindu goddess. Rockslides and tight roads force the drivers into dangerous situations, and risk breaking the sacred statue--making the whole trip worthless. Dave tackles the notorious "Ledge" for the first time, all while dealing with an oversized load and oncoming traffic. (More Info) Categories: Disaster, Society, Automotive Duration: 00:44:16 Date Added: 2011-05-22 00:00:00 Views: 676 Rating: N/A  Watch Full Documentary Here!
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Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines - Episode 3 |
Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines was a six-part documentary series, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1998. The series focused on presenter Jeremy Clarkson, testing out a series of cars, jet planes and powerboats.
In This Episode: - F-15 Eagle Aircraft - Canadian Combine Harvester Race - Snowmobile Drag Racing In Lapland (More Info) Categories: Automotive, Aviation Duration: 00:23:55 Date Added: 2011-03-07 00:00:00 Views: 315 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Jeremy Clarkson's The Good The Bad And The Ugly |
In this particular 80 minute special made in late 2006, Clarkson takes himself to America because he had recently reviewed an American car and found it a decent vehicle. He was so surprised by this outcome that he set out to find out if this was a general trend in American cars or some sort of aberration. He sets himself up at a racing track near Las Vegas (Willow Springs) and tests a wide variety of American cars, sometimes on their own and sometimes against European rivals. Also thrown in are (More Info) Categories: Automotive Duration: 01:19:16 Date Added: 2011-03-13 00:00:00 Views: 444 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Lock 'N Load - Armored Vehicles |
Gunny explores the history of armored vehicles – the steel plated, multitasking vehicles designed to do everything from carry troops to field reconnaissance to bringing their own brand of firepower to the battlefield… (More Info) Categories: Weapons, Military, Automotive Duration: 00:44:57 Date Added: 2010-12-05 00:00:00 Views: 359 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Man Made Marvels - Taiwan's Hsuehshan Tunnel |
Taiwan's Hsuehshan Tunnel : While building Taiwan's Hsuehshan Tunnel, every tunneler's worst nightmare becomes reality: a collapse. But, failure is not an option for these builders and the engineers must now use even more innovative techniques and greater demands used for the construction of this true man made marvel. (More Info) Categories: Engineering, Automotive Duration: 00:45:45 Date Added: 2011-03-15 00:00:00 Views: 394 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Man-Made - Bugatti Veyron Super Car |
The Bugatti Veyron is a "super" super car - part automobile and part airplane. And with a base price of $1,750,000, it is the most expensive production car in the world. Designed with materials and construction techniques normally found in the aerospace industry, this remarkable engineering achievement is one of the fastest street-legal cars ever built. Now, NGC takes an insider look at the Bugatti factory to see how this modern engineering masterpiece is built. (More Info) Categories: Automotive, Engineering Duration: 00:45:02 Date Added: 2011-01-17 00:00:00 Views: 485 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Megafactories - Lamborghini |
Lamborghini’s factory near Bologna, Italy, is building its fastest car ever: the Murcielago SV, of which just 350 will be made. The USD$450,000 Murcielago SV launches from 0 to 62 miles per hour in just 3.2 seconds and can achieve a top speed of 212 miles per hour. The factory builds the car almost entirely by hand including its engine and body. The car is also painted and assembled by hand, including installation of the famous Lamborghini scissor doors. Every car is custom-built to order and (More Info) Categories: Automotive, Engineering, Technology Duration: 00:47:43 Date Added: 2011-02-07 00:00:00 Views: 457 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Megastructures - Autobahn |
The Autobahn is nearly 7,300 miles long -- enough to cross the United States twice. But it's packed into an area the size of Montana. See what it takes to build, operate, and drive the world's greatest super highway. (More Info) Categories: Automotive, Technology Duration: 00:47:00 Date Added: 2010-09-12 00:00:00 Views: 430 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Megastructures - Megafactories - Porsche |
Rolling off the assembly line and taking the world by storm in 1964, the Porsche 911 is now one of the world’s iconic sports cars. Still produced on the same grounds that gave birth to the first 911, this car has grown to 14 variations. From the "modest" 911 Carrera with a top track speed of 185 mph to the 911 GT3, a street legal race car that tops out at 194 mph; this factory in Stuttgart, Germany, can offer a colour, style and speed for even the most fastidious driver. (More Info) Categories: Automotive, Engineering, Technology Duration: 00:47:16 Date Added: 2011-02-07 00:00:00 Views: 386 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Modern Marvels - Alcan Highway |
Today, vacationers travel from British Columbia north through the Yukon Pass on their way to Fairbanks, Alaska, thanks to one two-lane roadway, the 1,522-mile long Alaska Highway. A bit treacherous in spots and best driven in the few summer months the region provides, it's an unrivaled engineering feat that took 11,000 soldiers, nearly 4,000 of them black, only 8 months to build! Travel back to 1942 as they bulldoze their way into history while connecting the Lower 48 to the Alaskan Territory. (More Info) Categories: Automotive, Engineering Duration: 00:44:13 Date Added: 2010-11-25 00:00:00 Views: 319 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Modern Marvels - Breaking Point |
We're ready to examine points of failure in ultra slow motion. We'll crash cars and trucks at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to find their breaking points, and to find the breaking points of the crash dummies inside. At Underwriter's Laboratories we'll fire rounds at bullet proof glass until it breaks, and we'll see how long it will take experts to breach a safe using more and more powerful tools. We'll make lithium-ion batteries catch fire and blow up at Sandia National Laboratories (More Info) Categories: Technology, Automotive, Disaster Duration: 00:43:38 Date Added: 2011-06-06 00:00:00 Views: 761 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here!
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Modern Marvels - Car Crashes |
In the mid-1960s, the US lost an average of 55,000 people yearly to car crashes. Since then, the number of cars on the road has doubled, but fatalities have decreased by nearly a third. The dramatic reduction is the culmination of research and development that led to safer roads and cars and quicker emergency response. But car-crash technology's future involves removal of its biggest threat--human drivers! Find out if computers and radar can prevent everything from fender-benders to pile-ups. (More Info) Categories: Automotive, Technology Duration: 00:44:32 Date Added: 2010-08-25 00:00:00 Views: 357 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Monster Garage - DeLorean Hovercraft |
In this challenge, Jesse and the guys take on a 1982 DeLorean DMC 12 and transform it into a hovercraft. Or at least that was the idea...
• Jesse James, custom-bike builder/designer, West Coast Choppers, Long Beach, Calif. • Rick Gendreau, electronic designer, Pembroke, N.H. • Mark Hannah, transportation designer and artist, Pasadena, Calif. • Casey Heller, auto mechanic, Manhattan Beach, Calif. • John Rago, air-bag suspension distributor, Highland, Calif (More Info) Categories: Automotive, Engineering Duration: 00:44:40 Date Added: 2010-09-29 00:00:00 Views: 1453 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist
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Monster Garage - U-Haul Wrestling-Ring Truck |
Project vehicle: 1988 U-Haul International 16 Series Well, here’s something you don’t see every day: a hydraulic-powered wrestling ring/U-Haul box truck. Right? I mean, when you think U-Haul, do you think WrestleMania or RAW? Design team: Bill Goldberg (as Goldberg) (professional wrestler), Ellis Edwards (stuntman) Build team: Mark N. Carpenter Sr. (as Mark Carpenter), professional wrestling ring constructor from Bridgeport, Connecti (More Info) Categories: Automotive, Engineering Duration: 00:43:40 Date Added: 2011-05-22 00:00:00 Views: 1525 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here!
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