Seconds from Disaster

Season 5

6 episodes · Mar 11, 2012

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  • S5E1

    Japan's Nuclear Nightmare

    Mar 11, 201245m

    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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  • S5E2

    Bismarck

    Mar 18, 201245m

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

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  • S5E3

    Mountain Tsunami

    Mar 25, 201245m

    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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  • S5E4

    Waco Cult

    Apr 1, 201245m

    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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  • S5E5

    Deepwater Horizon

    Apr 15, 201245m

    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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  • S5E6

    Massacre in Mumbai

    Apr 22, 201245m

    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.

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