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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

9/11Sep 5, 2011 · 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.…

Pearl HarborSep 12, 2011 · 45m

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

Paddington Train CollisionSep 19, 2011 · 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…

Collision at 35,000 FeetSep 26, 2011 · 45m

On July 1, 2002 a cargo airliner and a passenger airliner collide while they are over Überlingen in Germany. The two aircraft crash, killin…

Cable Car CollisionOct 3, 2011 · 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 n…

Bhopal NightmareOct 10, 2011 · 45m

On December 2, 1984 in Bhopal, India, a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide chemical plant results in the deaths of 3,000 people.

Cast

Ashton SmithNarrator