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 — Season 1 Episode 1
Episode 1
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Crash of the Concorde (Concorde)
47 min
Episode 2
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Tunnel Inferno
47 min
Episode 3
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The Bomb in Oklahoma City
47 min
Episode 4
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Fire On the Star (Fire Onboard the Star)
47 min
Episode 5
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Derailment at Eschede (High Speed Train Wreck)
47 min
Episode 6
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Wreck of the Sunset Limited
47 min
Episode 7
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Meltdown in Chernobyl
47 min
Episode 8
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Inferno at Guadalajara
47 min
Episode 9
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Fire on the Ski Slope
47 min
Episode 10
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Explosion in the North Sea
47 min
Episode 11
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Flood at Stava Dam
47 min
Episode 12
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Collision on the Runway
47 min
Episode 13
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Pentagon 9/11
47 min
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Cast
Ashton Smith
Narrator
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