NOVA

Season 44, Episode 22

Episode Title: Secrets of the Forbidden City

Air Date: 2017-10-18

Overview:

The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of imperial China and survived wars, revolution, fires, and earthquakes. How did the Ming Emperor’s workforce construct its sprawling array of nearly 1,000 buildings and dozens of temples in a little over a decade?