Seconds from Disaster

Season 5

2012 · 6 episodes · 4h 30m in all · 7.1/10

Episodes

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   1. Japan's Nuclear Nightmare

   11 Mar 2012 · 45 min · 6.7/10

   On 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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   2. Bismarck

   18 Mar 2012 · 45 min · 8.2/10

   Maritime Historian Andrew Lambert looks at the Royal Navy's battle with the German battleship Bismarck.

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   3. Mountain Tsunami

   25 Mar 2012 · 45 min · 7.8/10

   In 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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   4. Waco Cult

   1 Apr 2012 · 45 min · 5.5/10

   After 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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   5. Deepwater Horizon

   15 Apr 2012 · 45 min · 6.8/10

   A 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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   6. Massacre in Mumbai

   22 Apr 2012 · 45 min · 7.5/10

   On 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.