Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Discreet, yet as safe as a tank. The bullet proof car is constantly changing. While Hitler and Al Capone drove in armoured cars, today they are light, fast and almost impenetrable. But how are new threats changing the bullet proof car today? Filmed on location the UK, the US and Mexico, this show gives an insight into this hidden world. Featuring interviews with designers and survivors of bullet proof car attacks.

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Building the Ultimate is a fast-paced and fascinating series, combining CGI, archive and actuality footage to show how modern technology has shaped the objects we use, fight with, live and travel in. Find out how and why our 21st century weapons, buildings, superstructures and vehicles have evolved in the face of often impossible odds, looking in detail at their different components to demonstrate human ingenuity and our endless quest to build the indestructible.

This film was first broadcast: 2003

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