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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 5

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E01

Episode 1

★ 6.7

Japan's Nuclear Nightmare

2012-03-11 · 45m

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s coast caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.

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E02

Episode 2

★ 8.2

Bismarck

2012-03-18 · 45m

Maritime Historian Andrew Lambert looks at the Royal Navy's battle with the German battleship Bismarck.

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E03

Episode 3

★ 7.8

Mountain Tsunami

2012-03-25 · 45m

In 1963 a landslide from Monte Toc into the reservoir of the Europe's highest dam caused a giant flood wave that destroyed the village of Longarone and other villages, claiming over 2,000 lives.

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E04

Episode 4

★ 5.5

Waco Cult

2012-04-01 · 45m

After a 51-day siege at the ranch of an armed religious cult, the FBI tries to force people out with tear gas, but a fire breaks out and almost 80 people die.

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E05

Episode 5

★ 6.8

Deepwater Horizon

2012-04-15 · 45m

A look at the series of decisions and mistakes that led to the world's largest oil spill disaster, and that 11 workers on the rig died.

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E06

Episode 6

★ 7.5

Massacre in Mumbai

2012-04-22 · 45m

On 26 November 2008, terrorists attacked two luxury hotels (one of them the famous Taj Mahal Hotel), a Jewish educational center, a café and a train station in Mumbai, killing 166 people.

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