Seconds from Disaster(2005)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2005-09-19
Average Runtime: 45m
Rating: 7.1
Votes: 28
Seasons: 7
Episodes: 69
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.
Keywords
disasterexplosionchernobyl, ukraine
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Season 1
Episodes: 13E01
Crash of the Concorde (Concorde)
Air Date: 2005-09-19
Behind every disaster lies a chain of events. The Concorde was the world's first supersonic airliner, but on a charte...
E02
Tunnel Inferno
Air Date: 2005-10-10
Mont Blanc is one of the highest mountains in Europe, with a seven-mile long tunnel connecting France and Italy throu...
E03
The Bomb in Oklahoma City
Air Date: 2005-10-17
One April morning in 1995, at Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Timothy McVeigh parks a truck packed...
E04
Fire On the Star (Fire Onboard the Star)
Air Date: 2005-10-16
On Easter 1990, a fire breaks out on the Scandinavian Star Ferry. After been towed to Sweden, the fire is eventually ...
E05
Derailment at Eschede (High Speed Train Wreck)
Air Date: 2005-09-26
June 1998. The new German InterCity Express is a trip from Munich to Hamburg, one of many. Today should be no differe...
E06
Wreck of the Sunset Limited
Air Date: 2005-11-04
September 1993. The captain of a towboat unwittingly causes the collapse of a bridge over the Big Bayou Canot. When a...
E07
Meltdown in Chernobyl
Air Date: 2005-11-06
We make mistakes every few seconds of our lives. They are unavoidable. But sometimes the results can be disastrous. O...
E08
Inferno at Guadalajara
Air Date: 2005-10-09
April 1992, Guadalajara, Mexico. On the 19th, residents start complaining of a strong gasoline-like smell coming from...
E09
Fire on the Ski Slope
Air Date: 2005-11-10
November 11, 2000, started out as a normal day at the Kaprun ski resort in Austria, as a Furnicular train climbing th...
E10
Explosion in the North Sea
Air Date: 2005-11-27
July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha stands over 110 miles off Scotland. But on this fateful day, a gas leak causes a catast...
E11
Flood at Stava Dam
Air Date: 2005-11-20
On July 1985, Italy's Stava Dam collapses and demolishes 70 structures killing 268 people in the process. Was there a...
E12
Collision on the Runway
Air Date: 2005-10-03
Two Jumbo Jets, Pan Am 1736 and KLM 4805 collide on the lone runway at Tenerife, Spain. The two aircraft are then bur...
E13
Pentagon 9/11
Air Date: 2005-09-11
September 11, 2001 is one of the worst days in history. In Washington, D.C, the workers at the Pentagon have only jus...
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