About this season
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.
Episodes (6)
1. Japan's Nuclear Nightmare
6.7Aired 11 March 2012 • 45 min
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s coast caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
2. Bismarck
8.7Aired 18 March 2012 • 45 min
Maritime Historian Andrew Lambert looks at the Royal Navy's battle with the German battleship Bismarck.
3. Mountain Tsunami
8.0Aired 25 March 2012 • 45 min
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
5.0Aired 1 April 2012 • 45 min
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
6.7Aired 15 April 2012 • 45 min
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
7.7Aired 22 April 2012 • 45 min
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.