Seconds From Disaster (2004)

Original title

Seconds from Disaster

Genre

documentary television program

Country

United States

Length

7 seasons, 69 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series examines major disasters from the 20th and 21st centuries. Each episode breaks down the events leading up to the catastrophe second by second using reenactments, interviews, and computer graphics.

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What happens

Seconds from Disaster is an American/British-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters from the 20th and early 21st centuries. Each episode aims to explain a single incident by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately affected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience. Seconds from Disaster was first broadcast on the National Geographic channel in 2004 and originally consisted of 45 episodes over three seasons. Following its original conclusion in 2007, the show was put on a four-year hiatus and later replaced with Critical Situation. In 2011, National Geographic revived the show and aired another 22 episodes over three seasons until the following year. In 2018, the show revived again and aired two episodes featuring compilations about helicopter and airliner crashes. Narrators of the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan, and Peter Guinness. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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