Seconds from Disaster
Season 5
20126 episodes
Episode 1
Japan's Nuclear Nightmare
Mar 11, 201245m
TMDB rating 6.7TMDB
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s coast caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
Episode 2
Bismarck
Mar 18, 201245m
TMDB rating 8.2TMDB
Maritime Historian Andrew Lambert looks at the Royal Navy's battle with the German battleship Bismarck.
Episode 3
Mountain Tsunami
Mar 25, 201245m
TMDB rating 7.8TMDB
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.
Episode 4
Waco Cult
Apr 1, 201245m
TMDB rating 5.5TMDB
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.
Episode 5
Deepwater Horizon
Apr 15, 201245m
TMDB rating 6.8TMDB
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.
Episode 6
Massacre in Mumbai
Apr 22, 201245m
TMDB rating 7.5TMDB
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.