Series · Documentary
Seconds from Disaster (2005)
★ 7.2 · 30 votes7 seasons · 75 episodesDocumentary2005
Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incidental by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately effected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience. Narrators for the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan and Peter Guinness.
- Network
- National Geographic
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- First aired
- September 19, 2005
- Status
- Ended
Cast
- Richard VaughnNarrator
- Ashton SmithNarrator
Peter GuinnessNarrator
Ryo TakagiSelf- Andrew SullivanSelf
Timothy McVeighSelf (archival footage)- Boris StolyarchukSelf
Bill ClintonSelf (archival footage)
Anders Behring BreivikSelf (archival footage)
Jim JonesSelf (archival footage)- Ankie SpitzerSelf
- Manfred SchreiberHimself
Laura SwiftTheresa- Lou KasischkeSelf
- Lene GammelgaardSelf
- Neal BeidlemanHimself
- Gilles LogelinSelf
- John HutchinsonSelf
Episodes
0/13 watched- Episode 1: Concorde (Crash of the Concorde)47 min · Sep 19, 2005
- Episode 2: Tunnel Inferno47 min · Oct 10, 2005
- Episode 3: Oklahoma City (Bomb in Oklahoma)47 min · Oct 17, 2005
- Episode 4: Fire On the Star (Fire Onboard the Star)47 min · Oct 16, 2005
- Episode 5: Derailment at Eschede (High Speed Train Wreck)47 min · Sep 26, 2005
- Episode 6: Wreck of the Sunset Limited (The Wreck of the Sunset Limited)47 min · Nov 4, 2005
- Episode 7: Meltdown in Chernobyl47 min · Nov 6, 2005
- Episode 8: Inferno at Guadalajara47 min · Oct 9, 2005
- Episode 9: Fire on the Ski Slope47 min · Nov 10, 2005
- Episode 10: Explosion in the North Sea47 min · Nov 27, 2005
- Episode 11: Flood at Stava Dam47 min · Nov 20, 2005
- Episode 12: Collision on the Runway47 min · Oct 3, 2005
- Episode 13: Pentagon 9/1147 min · Sep 11, 2005
