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 & Episodes
Season 1 (13 Episodes) ▼
E1: Crash of the Concorde▶ PLAY
E2: Tunnel Inferno▶ PLAY
E3: The Bomb in Oklahoma City▶ PLAY
E4: Fire Onboard the Star (Fire on the Star)▶ PLAY
E5: High Speed Train Wreck (Derailment at Eschede)▶ PLAY
E6: Wreck of the Sunset Limited▶ PLAY
E7: Meltdown in Chernobyl▶ PLAY
E8: Inferno at Guadalajara▶ PLAY
E9: Fire on the Ski Slope▶ PLAY
E10: Explosion in the North Sea▶ PLAY
E11: Flood at Stava Dam▶ PLAY
E12: Collision on the Runway▶ PLAY
E13: Pentagon 9/11▶ PLAY
Season 2 (13 Episodes) ▼
E1: Columbia's Last Flight (Space Shuttle Columbia)▶ PLAY
E2: Alpine Tsunami▶ PLAY
E3: Motorway Plane Crash▶ PLAY
E4: Mount St. Helens Eruption▶ PLAY
E5: Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster▶ PLAY
E6: Killer Quake (Kobe Earthquake)▶ PLAY
E7: Crash Landing in Sioux City▶ PLAY
E8: Disco Bombing (The Bali Bombing)▶ PLAY
E9: Hotel Collapse▶ PLAY
E10: TWA Flight 800▶ PLAY
E11: Runaway Train (Paris Train Crash)▶ PLAY
E12: Hindenburg Airship▶ PLAY
E13: Puerto Rico Gas Explosion▶ PLAY
Season 3 (19 Episodes) ▼
E1: Skywalk Collapse▶ PLAY
E2: Amsterdam Air Crash▶ PLAY
E3: Kursk: Russia's Nuclear Nightmare▶ PLAY
E4: King's Cross Fire (London's Subway Inferno)▶ PLAY