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Seconds From Disaster

Season 5 2012
TV-PG

  • 2012-03-12T00:30:00Z on National Geographic
  • 1h
  • 4h 30m (6 episodes)
  • United States
  • English, Hungarian, Italian
  • Documentary
Accounts of famous technological disasters and their subsequent investigations.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

2012-03-12T00:30:00Z

5x01 Japan's Nuclear Nightmare

Season Premiere

5x01 Japan's Nuclear Nightmare

  • 2012-03-12T00:30:00Z45m

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s coast caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.

2012-03-19T00:30:00Z

5x02 Bismarck

5x02 Bismarck

  • 2012-03-19T00:30:00Z45m

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

2012-03-26T00:30:00Z

5x03 Mountain Tsunami

5x03 Mountain Tsunami

  • 2012-03-26T00:30:00Z45m

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.

2012-04-02T00:30:00Z

5x04 Waco Cult

5x04 Waco Cult

  • 2012-04-02T00:30:00Z45m

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.

2012-04-16T00:30:00Z

5x05 Deepwater Horizon

5x05 Deepwater Horizon

  • 2012-04-16T00:30:00Z45m

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.

Season Finale

2012-04-23T00:30:00Z

5x06 Massacre in Mumbai

Season Finale

5x06 Massacre in Mumbai

  • 2012-04-23T00:30:00Z45m

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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