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Ten Steps to Disaster

All Episodes 2021 - 2023
TV-14

  • 2018-01-09T00:00:00Zs at 2018-01-09T00:00:00Z on Smithsonian Channel
  • 2021-09-05T23:00:00Z
  • 42m
  • 8h 54m (12 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Blink Films
  • Documentary
Experts take a deep dive into modern history's worst disasters to highlight ten crucial missteps behind each catastrophe.

12 episodes

Series Premiere

2021-09-05T23:00:00Z

1x01 Twin Towers

Series Premiere

1x01 Twin Towers

  • 2021-09-05T23:00:00Z44m

In-depth analysis and key interviews reveal the ten biggest factors that led to the Twin Towers disaster on September 11, 2001.

2021-09-12T23:00:00Z

1x02 JFK Assassination

1x02 JFK Assassination

  • 2021-09-12T23:00:00Z44m

Using new research, first-hand accounts and unpublished CIA files, to uncover the signs, clues and missteps that led to a Presidential assassination that rocked the world.

2021-09-19T23:00:00Z

1x03 737 Max

1x03 737 Max

  • 2021-09-19T23:00:00Z44m

Newly uncovered records reveal why the seemingly reliable plane was headed toward disaster and what could have been done to prevent it.

Season Finale

2021-09-26T23:00:00Z

1x04 Deepwater Horizon

Season Finale

1x04 Deepwater Horizon

  • 2021-09-26T23:00:00Z44m

Investigators, oil workers and residents of the American Gulf Coast reveal the cascading problems and deadly mistakes that led to the worst marine oil spill of all time.

Season Premiere

2023-03-26T00:00:00Z

2x01 Surfside Condo Collapse

Season Premiere

2x01 Surfside Condo Collapse

  • 2023-03-26T00:00:00Z45m

During the night, the Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside, Miami, collapsed, killing 98 people; revealing fatal mistakes that led to the disaster, including code violations, inadequate storm defenses, ignored warnings and a contaminant.

2023-04-01T23:00:00Z

2x02 Texas Blackout

2x02 Texas Blackout

  • 2023-04-01T23:00:00Z45m

A look at ten key factors that contributed to the 2021 Texas blackout, which left four million homes without power and heat, leading to roughly 700 deaths.

2023-04-08T23:00:00Z

2x03 Iranian Hostage Crisis

2x03 Iranian Hostage Crisis

  • 2023-04-08T23:00:00Z45m

Iranian students invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage and triggering a crisis that will last 444 days; 10 key mistakes the United States made, including an ignorance of anti-U.S. sentiment and multiple security errors.

2023-04-15T23:00:00Z

2x04 Boston Marathon Bombing

2x04 Boston Marathon Bombing

  • 2023-04-15T23:00:00Z44m

April 15, 2013. Two explosions rock the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring over 260. The blasts are immediately identified as a terrorist act, but many questions remain. Who planted the bombs? Why did they do it? And most pressing of all: how did they pull off an attack at one of America's most celebrated events undetected? Through in-depth analysis and expert testimony, we list the missed opportunities, security failures, and other errors that allowed the devastating events to unfold before, during, and after the bombing.

2023-04-22T23:00:00Z

2x05 Mount St. Helens

2x05 Mount St. Helens

  • 2023-04-22T23:00:00Z44m

A list of 10 key errors and missteps that were made before, during, and after the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state.

2023-04-29T23:00:00Z

2x06 The Opioid Crisis

2x06 The Opioid Crisis

  • 2023-04-29T23:00:00Z45m

Physicians and other experts examine the rise of an opioid crisis fueled by greed and misleading claims made by Purdue Pharma, makers of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin.

2x07 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

  • 2023-05-06T23:00:00Z45m

In 2011, a preventable nuclear meltdown in Japan endanger tens of thousands due to multiple structural failures, a lack of emergency training and a persistent myth of infallible safety.

2023-05-13T23:00:00Z

2x08 Waco Siege

2x08 Waco Siege

  • 2023-05-13T23:00:00Z45m

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