About this season
Zero Hour dramatizes the hour leading up to some of the most memorable historical events as they unfold minute by minute. Using a real-time clock and a split screen to follow key players, the series reveals the compelling and exciting minutes leading up to events that changed the world.
Episodes (6)
1. Operation Certain Death: The SAS in Sierra Leone
10.0
2. Falling Star - Columbia
8.0Aired 19 January 2007 • 60 min
On 1 February 2003, the U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana causing the deaths of all 7 crew members.
3. A Royal Massacre
7.0
4. The Lima Siege
8.0
5. The North Hollywood Shootout
8.0
6. Shoot-Out in Marseilles
8.0On December 26th, 1994, members of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) hijack Air France Flight 8969 in Algiers, after landing in Marseilles the counter-terrorism and hostage rescue unit of the French National Gendarmerie, GIGN attempt to storm the plane to rescue the hostages.