Richard Hammond's Big

Richard explores Volkswagen's giant car plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. He checks out its futuristic technology and discovers how this mega-factory works!

Richard takes flight aboard the US Air Force's biggest cargo plane: The C-5M Super Galaxy. Climbing inside its inner workings he learns why it's a record breaker.

Richard explores one of the world's biggest man-made engineering projects: the Kölnbrein Dam, which can hold back an incredible 200 million tonnes of water!

Richard joins the crew of one of the biggest moving objects on earth, the Marie Maersk container ship, on her continuous 28,000-mile voyage from Asia to Europe.

In this edition, Richard ventures beneath the Alps into the world's longest underground railway connection, the Brenner Base Tunnel.

Richard visits the huge Tottenham Hotspur Football Stadium in London, where he explores a pitch that splits and rolls away, and takes a terrifying walk on the stadium roof.

Richard visits the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, where he finds himself climbing the biggest lightening conductor on earth.

Richard takes a helicopter ride out to one of the most remote places on earth: the Appomattox production platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Richard explores elements that engineering projects have in common. And, he reveals how the challenges get bigger when something is built big!