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Zero Hour

Season 1 2004
TV-PG

  • 2004-08-29T04:00:00Z on History
  • 45m
  • 4h (4 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Documentary, Drama
This dynamic original series dramatizes the final hour leading up to several pivotal historical events, tracking happenings as they unfold, minute by minute. Using a real-time clock and a split-screen to follow key players, the series reveals the chilling lead-up to events that changed the world including the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, 9/11 and the Columbine shooting.

4 episodes

Series Premiere

2004-08-29T04:00:00Z

1x01 Disaster at Chernobyl

Series Premiere

1x01 Disaster at Chernobyl

  • 2004-08-29T04:00:00Z1h

At precisely 1.23am on 26 April 1986, the world changed forever. In Pripyat, Ukraine in the Soviet Union, the largest nuclear reactor of its kind exploded at the Chernobyl Power Station.

Zero Hour: The Last Hour of Flight 11 dramatically recounts the final sixty minutes of American Airlines Flight 11—an hour, and a flight, that changes the world forever. At 08:46 on the morning of September 11, 2001, Flight 11, a fully fueled Boeing 767, explodes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. It is the first terrorist strike on that day of infamy.

On April 20, 1999, two bullied teenagers from Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado embarked on a massacre, killing 12 students and one teacher, as well as injuring 24 other students (21 by direct gunfire), before committing suicide.

Season Finale

2004-09-19T04:00:00Z

1x04 Terror in Tokyo

Season Finale

1x04 Terror in Tokyo

  • 2004-09-19T04:00:00Z1h

During a rush-hour morning, Tokyo's elaborate underground Metro system is packed with commuters. They are unaware that it is about to become ground zero for an attempted mass murder. This program reconstructs minute by minute events from 7.46am to 8.46am as five men set out to poison the Tokyo Metro system. It offers personal testimonies of individuals caught up in events beyond their control.

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