Seconds From Disaster
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 circum...
Seconds From Disaster
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.
Seconds From Disaster
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 circum...
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Episode 1: Crash of the Concorde
Behind every disaster lies a chain of events. The Concorde was the world's first supersonic airliner...
Episode 2: Tunnel Inferno
Mont Blanc is one of the highest mountains in Europe, with a seven-mile long tunnel connecting Franc...
Episode 3: The Bomb in Oklahoma City
One April morning in 1995, at Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Timothy McVeigh par...
Episode 4: Fire Onboard the Star (Fire on the Star)
On Easter 1990, a fire breaks out on the Scandinavian Star Ferry. After been towed to Sweden, the fi...
Episode 5: High Speed Train Wreck (Derailment at Eschede)
June 1998. The new German InterCity Express is a trip from Munich to Hamburg, one of many. Today sho...
Episode 6: Wreck of the Sunset Limited
September 1993. The captain of a towboat unwittingly causes the collapse of a bridge over the Big Ba...
Episode 7: Meltdown in Chernobyl
We make mistakes every few seconds of our lives. They are unavoidable. But sometimes the results can...
Episode 8: Inferno at Guadalajara
April 1992, Guadalajara, Mexico. On the 19th, residents start complaining of a strong gasoline-like...
Episode 9: Fire on the Ski Slope
November 11, 2000, started out as a normal day at the Kaprun ski resort in Austria, as a Furnicular...
Episode 10: Explosion in the North Sea
July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha stands over 110 miles off Scotland. But on this fateful day, a gas lea...
Episode 11: Flood at Stava Dam
On July 1985, Italy's Stava Dam collapses and demolishes 70 structures killing 268 people in the pro...
Episode 12: Collision on the Runway
Two Jumbo Jets, Pan Am 1736 and KLM 4805 collide on the lone runway at Tenerife, Spain. The two airc...
Episode 13: Pentagon 9/11
September 11, 2001 is one of the worst days in history. In Washington, D.C, the workers at the Penta...
Episode 1: Columbia's Last Flight (Space Shuttle Columbia)
June 28 Columbia's Last Flight (Space Shuttle Columbia) Space Shuttle Columbia disaster February 1...
Episode 2: Alpine Tsunami
The Alpine village of Galtur, an avalanche buries 57 people in the snow. 31 of them die. But why did...
Episode 3: Motorway Plane Crash
January 1989. British Midland Airways Flight 092, a Boeing 737, is landing at Kegworth, United Kingd...
Episode 4: Mount St. Helens Eruption
Mount St. Helens, in the countryside of Washington State, has been dormant for 123 years. But on May...
Episode 5: Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster
On March 1987, the British Car Ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes off Zeebrugge killing 193. W...
Episode 6: Killer Quake (Kobe Earthquake)
On 17 January 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe was rocked by the Great Hanshin Earthquake, which dest...
Episode 7: Crash Landing in Sioux City
On 19 July 1989, the pilots of United Airlines Flight 232 are shocked to learn they have lost all co...
Episode 8: Disco Bombing (The Bali Bombing)
Bali, located in Indonesia, is one of the most popular resorts in the world. But 202 die on the nigh...
Episode 9: Hotel Collapse
Hotel New World, budget hotel located in Singapore's Little India, collapses on 15 March, 1986. Afte...
Episode 10: TWA Flight 800
17 July 1996. TWA Flight 800 leaves New York for Paris. Only 12 minutes into the flight, it explodes...
Episode 11: Runaway Train (Paris Train Crash)
In what was no doubt the worst rail incident in French history, a runaway train derails at Gare De L...
Episode 12: Hindenburg Airship
When the zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire at Lakehurst, 35 of the 97 on board and one member of the...
Episode 13: Puerto Rico Gas Explosion
The Humberto Vidal Shoe Store was just like any other. But one day in Puerto Rico, a gas explosion k...
Episode 1: Skywalk Collapse
On 17 July 1981, 1,500 people had gathered for a dance in the Hyatt Regency Hotel when, in a catastr...
Episode 2: Amsterdam Air Crash
On 4 October 1992, an El Al Israel Airlines Cargo B747-200F takes off from Schipol Airport in Amster...
Episode 3: Kursk: Russia's Nuclear Nightmare
When a training mission goes horribly wrong, the Russian sumbarine Kursk suffers an explosion. 135 s...
Episode 4: King's Cross Fire (London's Subway Inferno)
On the night of 18 November 1987, a harmless match produced a small flame on the escalator at King's...
Episode 5: Nairobi Bombing
Al Queda struck again on August 7, 1998. In Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, a truck bom...
Episode 6: Everglades Plane Crash
On May 1996, what started out as a normal flight from Miami, Florida, to Atlanta, Georgia, when Valu...
Episode 7: Titanic
It was known as the "unsinkable ship." The RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southhampton to Ne...
Episode 8: Aircraft Carrier Explosion
The massive aircraft carrier USS Forrestal is sailing to Vietnam on July 29, 1967, when a fighter je...
Episode 9: Queens Air Crash
Its been more than two months after 9/11 and the event is still fresh in everyone's mind. At JFK Air...
Episode 10: Munich Olympic Massacre
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, 11 Israeli athletes are been held hostage by Palestinian te...
Episode 11: Superstore Collapse
On 29 June 1995, the five story Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, Korea, collapses killing 502 peo...
Episode 12: Plane Crash in the Potomac
On 13 January 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 leaves Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington DC for...
Episode 13: Asian Tsunami
On Boxing Day 2004, the second largest earthquake in recorded history with a magnitude of 9.3 strike...
Episode 14: Comet Air Crash
The DH Comet is the first jet airliner and the pride of the British Overseas Airways Corporation. Bu...
Episode 15: Flight Engine Down
American Airlines Flight 191, a DC-10, leaves Chicago. But when the engine falls off, the plane stal...
Episode 16: Oil Fire in Texas
The Texas BP oil refinery is the third largest in America producing more than 437,000 barrels per da...
Episode 17: Tornado Outbreak
On 3 April 1974, the most violent outbreak of tornadoes in history struck. The well-named "Super Out...
Episode 18: Space Shuttle Challenger
On a cold winter day in 1986, space shuttle Challenger takes off from Cape Canaveral to start Missio...
Episode 19: Eruption on Montserrat
On the Caribbean island of Montserrat is the Soufrière Hills volcano. Nearby is Plymouth, the island...
Episode 1: 9/11
On September 11, 2001 two aircraft are deliberately flown into two buildings of the World Trade Cent...
Episode 2: Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941 Japanese forces attack United States military installations in and around Pearl...
Episode 3: Paddington Train Collision
On October 5, 1999 two trains collide at Ladbroke Grove junction near London's Paddington station af...
Episode 4: Collision at 35,000 Feet
On July 1, 2002 a cargo airliner and a passenger airliner collide while they are over Überlingen in...
Episode 5: Cable Car Collision
The Cavalese cable car disaster of 1998 (as distinct from a cable car disaster in the same location...
Episode 6: Bhopal Nightmare
On December 2, 1984 in Bhopal, India, a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide chemical plant results in...
Episode 1: Japan's Nuclear Nightmare
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s coast caused a meltdown at the Fukush...
Episode 2: Bismarck
Maritime Historian Andrew Lambert looks at the Royal Navy's battle with the German battleship Bismar...
Episode 3: Mountain Tsunami
In 1963 a landslide from Monte Toc into the reservoir of the Europe's highest dam caused a giant flo...
Episode 4: Waco Cult
After a 51-day siege at the ranch of an armed religious cult, the FBI tries to force people out with...
Episode 5: Deepwater Horizon
A look at the series of decisions and mistakes that led to the world's largest oil spill disaster, a...
Episode 6: Massacre in Mumbai
On 26 November 2008, terrorists attacked two luxury hotels (one of them the famous Taj Mahal Hotel),...
Episode 1: Norway Massacre: I Was There
On July 22, 2011, a gunman goes on a terrorist rampage – starting with an explosion in Oslo and endi...
Episode 2: Jonestown Cult Suicide
On November 18, 1978, when enigmatic cult leader Reverend Jim Jones calls all his followers together...
Episode 3: Fire in the Cockpit
On September 2, 1998, a fire broke out on Swissair Flight 111 while in-flight, damaging vital system...
Episode 4: Black Hawk Down
On October 3–4, 1993, what should have been a simple snatch and grab operation for the US Army in So...
Episode 5: Into The Death Zone
On May 10–11, 1996 saw the death of nine climbers, including New Zealand climbing veteran Rob Hall....
Episode 6: Terrified Over Tokyo
On August 12, 1985, the rear pressure bulkhead burst on Japan Airlines Flight 123, destroying the ve...
Episode 7: Runaway Train
On April 25, 2005, a seven-car commuter train came off the tracks and crashed just before Amagasaki...
Episode 8: Nagasaki - The Forgotten Bomb
On August 9, 1945, the United States of America, during the final stages of World War II in 1945 bom...
Episode 9: Sinking The Coventry
On May 25, 1982, in the Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina a low level bomb atta...
Episode 10: Chinook Helicopter Crash
On August 6, 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook was shot down while transporting a quick reaction for...
Episode 1: Chopper Down
This compilation of Seconds from Disaster combines two helicopter tragedies of a military nature. Ch...
Episode 2: Deadly Design
This compilation of Seconds from Disaster combines two airplane tragedies that took hundreds of live...
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