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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

E1
Concorde (Crash of the Concorde)Sep 19, 2005 · 47m

Behind every disaster lies a chain of events. The Concorde was the world's first supersonic airliner, but on a charter flight to New York,…

E2
Tunnel InfernoOct 10, 2005 · 47m

Mont Blanc is one of the highest mountains in Europe, with a seven-mile long tunnel connecting France and Italy through the Alps. One March…

E3
Oklahoma City (Bomb in Oklahoma)Oct 17, 2005 · 47m

One April morning in 1995, at Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Timothy McVeigh parks a truck packed with explosives at th…

E4
Fire On the Star (Fire Onboard the Star)Oct 16, 2005 · 47m

On Easter 1990, a fire breaks out on the Scandinavian Star Ferry. After been towed to Sweden, the fire is eventually put out after 10 hours…

E5
Derailment at Eschede (High Speed Train Wreck)Sep 26, 2005 · 47m

June 1998. The new German InterCity Express is a trip from Munich to Hamburg, one of many. Today should be no different. The new train offe…

E6
Wreck of the Sunset Limited (The Wreck of the Sunset Limited)Nov 4, 2005 · 47m

September 1993. The captain of a towboat unwittingly causes the collapse of a bridge over the Big Bayou Canot. When an Amtrak train comes a…

E7
Meltdown in ChernobylNov 6, 2005 · 47m

We make mistakes every few seconds of our lives. They are unavoidable. But sometimes the results can be disastrous. On April 26, 1986, a se…

E8
Inferno at GuadalajaraOct 9, 2005 · 47m

April 1992, Guadalajara, Mexico. On the 19th, residents start complaining of a strong gasoline-like smell coming from the sewers. Three day…

E9
Fire on the Ski SlopeNov 10, 2005 · 47m

November 11, 2000, started out as a normal day at the Kaprun ski resort in Austria, as a Furnicular train climbing the slopes breaks down i…

E10
Explosion in the North SeaNov 27, 2005 · 47m

July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha stands over 110 miles off Scotland. But on this fateful day, a gas leak causes a catastrophic fire with a los…

E11
Flood at Stava DamNov 20, 2005 · 47m

On July 1985, Italy's Stava Dam collapses and demolishes 70 structures killing 268 people in the process. Was there a fault in the design o…

E12
Collision on the RunwayOct 3, 2005 · 47m

Two Jumbo Jets, Pan Am 1736 and KLM 4805 collide on the lone runway at Tenerife, Spain. The two aircraft are then burnt out and 583 people…

E13
Pentagon 9/11Sep 11, 2005 · 47m

September 11, 2001 is one of the worst days in history. In Washington, D.C, the workers at the Pentagon have only just heard of the chaos g…

Cast

Ashton SmithNarrator

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