Trapped in an Elevator

6:00pm

Across North America, elevators move 325 million passengers every day, and most people don’t give them a second thought. This film reveals the secret life of elevators and investigates personal stories of those who have been caught inside one of these machines when it failed. Nova takes viewers on a ride in the world’s fastest elevator to the top of the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building, as well as follows one of the thousands of elevator maintenance crews in Manhattan.