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Seconds From Disaster (2005)
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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Episode 1 - Japan's Nuclear Nightmare
Release Date: 2012-03-11On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s coast caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
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Episode 2 - Bismarck
Release Date: 2012-03-18Maritime Historian Andrew Lambert looks at the Royal Navy's battle with the German battleship Bismarck.
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Episode 3 - Mountain Tsunami
Release Date: 2012-03-25In 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.
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Episode 4 - Waco Cult
Release Date: 2012-04-01After 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.
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Episode 5 - Deepwater Horizon
Release Date: 2012-04-15A 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.
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Episode 6 - Massacre in Mumbai
Release Date: 2012-04-22On 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.