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The Bridge

by State Library of New South Wales
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About the show

The journey to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge would take almost 100 years. In this 5-part series, travel through history to experience the story of realising a city’s dream. The  building of the bridge was a modern marvel of its time; a feat uniting Sydney.

Latest episodes

  • TRAILER: The Gatherings Order

    September 3, 2020 · 1 min

    In 1918-19 an influenza pandemic took an estimated 15,000 Australian lives, and millions more around the world. One hundred years on, as we grapple with COVID-19, this five-part series rakes through the archives of the State Library of NSW…

  • Episode Five: A Bridge to the World

    October 11, 2018 · 15 min

    The Sydney Harbour Bridge is more than a harbour crossing. It’s a place of celebration, protest, adventure and inspiration.

  • Episode Four: Symphony in Steel

    October 3, 2018 · 16 min

    The opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 19 March 1932 was shared by a million people. Although it was a celebration, it was not without politics and drama.

  • Episode Three: Six Million Rivets

    September 20, 2018 · 17 min

    Building the Harbour Bridge was no easy feat, taking over 8 years, 6 million hand-driven rivets, 1400 labourers and the lives of 16 people.

  • Episode Two: Visions for a Bridge

    September 12, 2018 · 15 min

    Floating bridges, swing bridges, span bridges, subaqueous bridges, even filling in the harbour were all proposals to join a growing city.

  • Episode One: A City Divided

    August 30, 2018 · 13 min

    An ever-expanding colonial city in need of a harbour crossing that would take 100 years to realise.