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Witness to Disaster

Season 1 2019

  • 2019-07-23T21:00:00Z on National Geographic
  • 45m
  • 4h 30m (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Hard-hitting amateur, CCTV and news footage reveals how some of the world's biggest natural disasters took away people's lives, homes and hope in Witness Disaster. Surviving witnesses tell you what it was like to be in the midst of nature's most devastating attacks. Combined with genuine CCTV footage, their stories bring to life the terrifying reality of what it is like to experience outright disaster.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2019-07-23T21:00:00Z

1x01 Tornado Outbreak

Series Premiere

1x01 Tornado Outbreak

  • 2019-07-23T21:00:00Z45m

In April 2011, 360 tornadoes ravage the southern United States in four days, killing 348 people.

2019-07-30T21:00:00Z

1x02 Chilean Mine Rescue

1x02 Chilean Mine Rescue

  • 2019-07-30T21:00:00Z45m

A mine collapses in Chile, trapping 33 miners almost half a mile underground.

2019-08-06T21:00:00Z

1x03 California Mudslide

1x03 California Mudslide

  • 2019-08-06T21:00:00Z45m

Montecito is hit by a devastating natural disaster that leaves its residents fighting for their lives. Overnight, the quiet Californian beach town is swamped by a terrifying series of thirty-feet high, boulder-filled debris flows that destroy homes and leave streets swimming in mud. Through eyewitness testimony and footage taken during the disaster, we reveal how split-seconds decisions made the difference between life and death.

2019-08-13T21:00:00Z

1x04 Portugal's Hellfire

1x04 Portugal's Hellfire

  • 2019-08-13T21:00:00Z45m

The story of the largest fire in Portugal's history told by the people who were there.

2019-08-20T21:00:00Z

1x05 Everest Avalanche

1x05 Everest Avalanche

  • 2019-08-20T21:00:00Z45m

Nepal is hit by a 6.7 mega-earthquake that kills thousands; across the country, survivors are hit by terrifying avalanches that destroy everything in their path; presenting stories of survival, from the Kathmandu Valley to Mount Everest.

Season Finale

2019-08-27T21:00:00Z

1x06 Lost in the Bermuda Triangle

Season Finale

1x06 Lost in the Bermuda Triangle

  • 2019-08-27T21:00:00Z45m

On Oct. 1, 2015, the cargo ship El Faro is on a regular run to Puerto Rico when it disappears in a Category 4 storm called Hurricane Joaquin; it is determined that the El Faro sank off the coast of the Bahamas with 33 crew members.

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