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Seconds from Disaster (2005)

7.2 7 seasons 75 episodes Ended

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.

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Seasons & episodes

Japan's Nuclear NightmareMar 11, 2012 · 45m

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

BismarckMar 18, 2012 · 45m

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

Mountain TsunamiMar 25, 2012 · 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 L…

Waco CultApr 1, 2012 · 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 al…

Deepwater HorizonApr 15, 2012 · 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.

Massacre in MumbaiApr 22, 2012 · 45m

On 26 November 2008, terrorists attacked two luxury hotels (one of them the famous Taj Mahal Hotel), a Jewish educational center, a café an…

Cast

Ashton SmithNarrator