Seconds From Disaster (2005)

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.

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Season 4

Season 4

Season 5

Season 5

Season 6

Season 6

Season 7

Season 7

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Crash of the concorde

  • 1x2

    Tunnel inferno

  • 1x3

    The bomb in oklahoma city

  • 1x4

    Fire onboard the star (fire on the star)

  • 1x5

    High speed train wreck (derailment at eschede)

  • 1x6

    Wreck of the sunset limited

  • 1x7

    Meltdown in chernobyl

  • 1x8

    Inferno at guadalajara

  • 1x9

    Fire on the ski slope

  • 1x10

    Explosion in the north sea

  • 1x11

    Flood at stava dam

  • 1x12

    Collision on the runway

  • 1x13

    Pentagon 9/11

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    Columbia's last flight (space shuttle columbia)

  • 2x2

    Alpine tsunami

  • 2x3

    Motorway plane crash

  • 2x4

    Mount st. helens eruption

  • 2x5

    Zeebrugge ferry disaster

  • 2x6

    Killer quake (kobe earthquake)

  • 2x7

    Crash landing in sioux city

  • 2x8

    Disco bombing (the bali bombing)

  • 2x9

    Hotel collapse

  • 2x10

    Twa flight 800

  • 2x11

    Runaway train (paris train crash)

  • 2x12

    Hindenburg airship

  • 2x13

    Puerto rico gas explosion

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    Skywalk collapse

  • 3x2

    Amsterdam air crash

  • 3x3

    Kursk: russia's nuclear nightmare

  • 3x4

    King's cross fire (london's subway inferno)

  • 3x5

    Nairobi bombing

  • 3x6

    Everglades plane crash

  • 3x7

    Titanic

  • 3x8

    Aircraft carrier explosion

  • 3x9

    Queens air crash

  • 3x10

    Munich olympic massacre

  • 3x11

    Superstore collapse

  • 3x12

    Plane crash in the potomac

  • 3x13

    Asian tsunami

  • 3x14

    Comet air crash

  • 3x15

    Flight engine down

  • 3x16

    Oil fire in texas

  • 3x17

    Tornado outbreak

  • 3x18

    Space shuttle challenger

  • 3x19

    Eruption on montserrat

Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    9/11

  • 4x2

    Pearl harbor

  • 4x3

    Paddington train collision

  • 4x4

    Collision at 35,000 feet

  • 4x5

    Cable car collision

  • 4x6

    Bhopal nightmare

Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    Japan's nuclear nightmare

  • 5x2

    Bismarck

  • 5x3

    Mountain tsunami

  • 5x4

    Waco cult

  • 5x5

    Deepwater horizon

  • 5x6

    Massacre in mumbai

Episodes season 6

  • 6x1

    Norway massacre: i was there

  • 6x2

    Jonestown cult suicide

  • 6x3

    Fire in the cockpit

  • 6x4

    Black hawk down

  • 6x5

    Into the death zone

  • 6x6

    Terrified over tokyo

  • 6x7

    Runaway train

  • 6x8

    Nagasaki - the forgotten bomb

  • 6x9

    Sinking the coventry

  • 6x10

    Chinook helicopter crash

Episodes season 7

  • 7x1

    Chopper down

  • 7x2

    Deadly design

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