On dangerous Tracks
The Baghdad Railway Part 1+2

Legendary stories are being kept alive to this day about the world famous railway system, which was designed over a hundred years ago to connect Berlin with Baghdad and Damascus with Medina. A daring enterprise at the time and a masterpiece of engineering, the Baghdad Railway tied the destinies of many well-known personalities, which represented the rivalling interests of the big European Empires: Spies, engineers, saboteurs, diplomats, archaeologists, politicians and financiers were all intent on winning what they could for their home countries - to claim whatever stake they were able to get of this new lifeline through the Middle East, or to try and prevent it from ever being finished.