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Seconds from Disaster

2005 Ended 45m episodes

7.2/10 30 votes

Documentary

Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incidental by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately effected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience. Narrators for the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan and Peter Guinness.

Cast:: Ashton Smith
Language:: English
Country:: United Kingdom, United States of America
Network:: National Geographic

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Seasons

7 available

Season 4

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E01

Episode 1

★ 8.0

9/11

2011-09-05 · 45m

On September 11, 2001 two aircraft are deliberately flown into two buildings of the World Trade Center and one is flown into the Pentagon. Another crashes in a field in rural Pennsylvania.

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E02

Episode 2

★ 6.8

Pearl Harbor

2011-09-12 · 45m

On December 7, 1941 Japanese forces attack United States military installations in and around Pearl Harbor, thus bringing the US into World War II.

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E03

Episode 3

★ 7.3

Paddington Train Collision

2011-09-19 · 45m

On October 5, 1999 two trains collide at Ladbroke Grove junction near London's Paddington station after the driver of one fails to stop his train at a red signal.

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E04

Episode 4

★ 8.0

Collision at 35,000 Feet

2011-09-26 · 45m

On July 1, 2002 a cargo airliner and a passenger airliner collide while they are over Überlingen in Germany. The two aircraft crash, killing all on board.

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E05

Episode 5

★ 5.7

Cable Car Collision

2011-10-03 · 45m

The Cavalese cable car disaster of 1998 (as distinct from a cable car disaster in the same location in 1976), occurred on 3 February 1998 near the Italian town of Cavalese, a ski resort located in the Dolomites, some 40 km north-east of Trento. The disaster, which led to the death of 20 people, occurred when a U.S. military plane cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway.

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E06

Episode 6

★ 7.2