The Panama Canal is a 77 kilometre (48 mile) ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. Built from 1904 to 1914, annual traffic has risen from about 1,000 ships in the canal's early days to 14,702 vessels in 2008.

The first attempt to construct a canal began in 1880 under French leadership, but was abandoned after 21,900 workers died, largely from disease (particularly malaria and yellow fever) and landslides. The United States launched a second effort, incurring a further 5,600 deaths but succeeding in opening the canal in 1914.

This treasury of historical images and books comes to you on a Gift Quality DVD.

:: 7 Vintage Films

:: Dr. William Gorgas Film.mpeg

:: Panama Canal Scenes of the Finished Canal.mpg

:: The Story of the Panama Canal.mpeg

:: Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt [at the Panama-California Exposition (1915).mpeg

:: Theodore Roosevelt Speaking in Panama (November 1906).mpeg

:: Theodore Roosevelt's Arrival in Panama (November 1906).mpeg

:: William H. Taft in Panama (1910).mpeg

:: 32 Vintage Photographs

:: 71 Panaramic Photographs

:: 7 Vintage Books

:: History of the Panama Canal - its construction and builders (1915)

:: Panama Canal pictures - showing the latest photographs of the progress construction on the isthmian canal (1913)

:: The construction of the Panama canal (1915)

:: The Panama Canal - its past, present, and future (1914)

:: The Panama Canal, a pictorial review of its construction together with statistical information (1912)

:: The triumph of American medicine in the construction of the Panama Canal (1911)

:: The Untold Story Of Panama (1959)