• Air date: 11 Mar '12 6 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (6)
    • 1. Japan's Nuclear Nightmare

      11 Mar '12
      On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s coast caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
    • 2. Bismarck

      18 Mar '12
      Maritime Historian Andrew Lambert looks at the Royal Navy's battle with the German battleship Bismarck.
    • 3. Mountain Tsunami

      25 Mar '12
      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 Longarone and other villages, claiming over 2,000 lives.
    • 4. Waco Cult

      01 Apr '12
      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 almost 80 people die.
    • 5. Deepwater Horizon

      15 Apr '12
      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.
    • 6. Massacre in Mumbai

      22 Apr '12
      On 26 November 2008, terrorists attacked two luxury hotels (one of them the famous Taj Mahal Hotel), a Jewish educational center, a café and a train station in Mumbai, killing 166 people.