Ethan Hunt es un superespía capaz de resolver cualquier arriesgada situación con la máxima elegancia. Forma parte de un competente equipo dirigido por el agente Jim Phelps, que ha vuelto a reunir a sus hombres para participar en una dificilísima misión: evitar la venta de un disco robado que contiene información secreta de vital importancia.
Tres meses antes de sus exámenes finales, la ambiciosa Valentine se concentra totalmente en sus estudios. Cuando el músico de jazz Edouard la corteja, ella está de acuerdo, aunque sólo para una noche de diversión. Pero cuando llega a conocerlo mejor, se da cuenta de que no es tan superficial como ella pensaba ... y el deseo se convierte en amor. Sin embargo, entre los preparativos de su examen y los de una gira con una banda de jazz de Edouard casi no les queda tiempo para estar juntos.
July. Major holiday departures. TGV Paris-Brest. Alex does her first steps as a train controller on a great line, flanked by her colleague Antoine. During an inspection, she crosses the way of a passenger who diverts her from her new functions.
The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea tunnel ever constructed? We hear from the men and women, who built this engineering marvel. Massive tunnel boring machines gnawed their way through rock and chalk, digging not one tunnel but three; two rail tunnels and a service tunnel. This was a project that would be privately financed; not a penny of public money would be spent on the tunnel. Business would have to put up all the money and take all the risks. This was also a project that was blighted by flood, fire, tragic loss of life and financial bust ups. Today, it stands as an engineering triumph and a testament to what can be achieved when two nations, Britain and France put aside their historic differences and work together.
Nearly 200 years ago, the train revolutionized our lives. It redrew the maps of states and nations, and changed concepts of distance and time like no other invention before. What visionaries imagined the development of the railroad? How did we get from the first chugging locomotives to the smooth giants of speed we see today? How does France's extensive rail network keep running smoothly, 24/7?
