Saving Notre Dame

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Saving Notre Dame

Season 47 Episode 8 | 53m 52s | CC

When Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire in 2019, Paris came perilously close to losing more than 800 years of history. As engineers rebuild, researchers use cutting-edge technology to piece together what happened and restore the cathedral.

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