The Best Skyscrapers & Towers Documentaries

Engineering & Megastructures - 116 free documentaries about skyscrapers & towers.

Start with World's Tallest Tower: Burj Khalifa - Dubai's Vertical City (53 min, Free Documentary), then How Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers Work (19 min, Practical Engineering). All 116 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on skyscrapers & towers is Skyscraper by Karl Sabbagh.

• World's Tallest Tower: Burj Khalifa - Dubai's Vertical City (53 min, Free Documentary)
• How Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers Work (19 min, Practical Engineering)
• This Skyscraper Was Days From Collapsing And No One Knew (34 min, Veritasium)
• Constructing The Scorpion Tower | Impossible Builds (55 min, PBS)
• Tallest Building in Dubai | Superstructures: Engineering Marvels (44 min, National Geographic)
• Pearl River Tower: The Skyscraper That Generates Its Own Electricity | Megastructures Episode 6 (51 min, Spark)
• Why Nobody Wants the Chrysler Building (21 min, The B1M)
• What You Don’t Know About Manhattan’s Most Dangerous Building (36 min, The B1M)
• Shanghai Super Tower: The 60,000 Ton Behemoth Made Out Of Steel | Megastructures Episode 4 (51 min, Spark)
• What is a Tuned Mass Damper? (10 min, Practical Engineering)
• Why No One Wants This New York Skyscraper (32 min, The B1M)
• High-Rise Fires: How Safe Are We? | Talking Point (22 min, CNA Insider)
• How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa (13 min, Practical Engineering)
• The Skyscraper Boom No One is Talking About (18 min, The B1M)
• China’s $1BN Skyscraper Mistake (20 min, The B1M)
• Saudi Arabia Built a $16BN Clock Tower (25 min, The B1M)
• How Water Towers Work (11 min, Practical Engineering)
• The Grenfell Tower Fire: London’s High-Rise Scandal (34 min, The B1M)
• Why New York's Skyscrapers Keep Changing Shape (28 min, The B1M)
• Tallest Buildings and Constructions in the World | Masters of Engineering (53 min, Free Documentary)
• What Really Happened at the Millennium Tower? (14 min, Practical Engineering)
• Transporting An Entire 200-Foot Tall-Tower At Once | Huge Moves (49 min, Spark)
• Why New York Just Built a 1930s Skyscraper (15 min, The B1M)
• South America's Tallest Skyscraper is Half Empty (12 min, The B1M)
• Is This New York Skyscraper Cursed? (20 min, The B1M)
• Experts Explain Saudi Arabia’s 2KM Skyscraper (19 min, The B1M)
• Why Sydney Banned Skyscrapers (9 min, The B1M)
• Egypt is Building a New Nile (15 min, The B1M)
• The Skyscraper That Ruined Paris (16 min, The B1M)
• Inside Austria's (Terrifying) New Skyscraper Build (13 min, The B1M)
• Germany Has Solved the Empty Skyscraper Problem (9 min, The B1M)
• The Billionaire Skyscrapers With Supercar Elevators (10 min, The B1M)
• Building Singapore's Unbelievable Multi-Sport National Stadium | Singapore's Field Of Dreams (46 min, Spark)
• Why London Has a Nuclear-Proof Tower (13 min, The B1M)
• Why Russia Built a Skyscraper in the Middle of Nowhere (9 min, The B1M)
• The Secret Empty Tower in the Middle of New York (11 min, The B1M)
• Building Australia's Tallest Skyscraper (10 min, The B1M)
• Inside London's "Gotham City" Skyscraper (10 min, The B1M)
• Taking Down Eight Giant Towers | The Demolition Man (48 min, Free Documentary)
• How To Build A Skyscraper | Super Structures Episode 5 (52 min, Spark)
• The Sphere Failed. Why Are They Building More? (17 min, The B1M)
• Why the Jeddah Tower Won't Be One Kilometre Tall (17 min, The B1M)
• 262 Fifth Avenue: New York is About to Bury the Empire State Building (13 min, The B1M)
• This City is Taking New York's Skyscraper Crown (11 min, The B1M)
• Why the Nakagin Capsule Tower Was Japan's Best Failure (15 min, The B1M)
• This Robot is Building Supertall Elevators (10 min, The B1M)
• The $3BN Feng Shui Skyscraper Fixing Hong Kong's Skyline (10 min, The B1M)
• 270 Park Avenue: New York's $3BN Skyscraper Explained (11 min, The B1M)
• Torch Tower: The Insane Engineering of Tokyo's First Supertall Skyscraper (11 min, The B1M)
• Why It's So Hard to Build a Skyscraper Here (11 min, The B1M)
• New York's Tallest New Skyscraper Explained (9 min, The B1M)
• The True Scale of the World's Tallest Buildings (8 min, The B1M)
• Why No One Can Agree What’s REALLY the Tallest Mountain (10 min, Be Smart)
• Building Wealth: How To Construct A Core Portfolio | Money Mind | Wealth (24 min, CNA Insider)
• The World's Tallest TV Tower | Megastructures Episode 2 (49 min, Spark)
• Controlling Chaos: Building a Massive Tornado Chamber! (29 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Dubai's Building the World's Tallest Hotel... Again (11 min, The B1M)
• The $64M Race to Save the Eiffel Tower (13 min, The B1M)
• Why New York is Building on TOP of its Skyscrapers (11 min, The B1M)
• The Battle to Save NYC's Woolworth Building (10 min, The B1M)
• This 270-Year-Old Building Has a High-Tech Secret (11 min, The B1M)
• Seattle is Building a $54BN New Railway (9 min, The B1M)
• The Skyscrapers That Will Redefine New York (8 min, The B1M)
• Eiffel Tower: Gustave's 'Monstrous' Vision For The World's Tallest Monument (53 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• What's inside Big Ben? (Elizabeth Tower) (13 min, Jared Owen)
• The World's Most Powerful Buildings: An Ancient Secret (49 min, Odyssey)
• Who is Accountable? The Unanswered Questions of the Grenfell Tower Fire (46 min, Real Stories)
• World’s Tallest Constructions 🗼Impossible Engineering (59 min, Science Channel)
• Inside the World's Wettest Building (13 min, The B1M)
• How to Finish the World's Tallest Abandoned Building (17 min, The B1M)
• New York is Building a Skyscraper Jail (17 min, The B1M)
• Building the World’s Second Tallest Skyscraper (13 min, The B1M)
• Every Skyscraper Has To Pass This Test (13 min, The B1M)
• The Flatiron: The Shocking Story of New York’s Strangest Tower (12 min, The B1M)
• Why The World’s Tallest Mountain Isn't Mount Everest (99 min, Spark)
• New York's Buckling Tower: What Happens Now? (16 min, The B1M)
• Chicago is Building a Skyscraper in an Abandoned Hole (15 min, The B1M)
• London's Getting a New Supertall Skyscraper (15 min, The B1M)
• Why They Had to Build OVER This Old Building (11 min, The B1M)
• The Fight to Fix the Tilting Millennium Tower (9 min, The B1M)

Top-Rated Books About Skyscrapers & Towers

1. Skyscraper by Karl Sabbagh - View on Amazon
2. Built by Roma Agrawal - View on Amazon
3. Higher by Neal Bascomb - View on Amazon