Seconds from Disaster
American/British documentary television series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters from the 20th and early 21st centuries. Each episode aims to explain a single incident by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately affected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience.[1]
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Seconds from Disaster | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Based on | Historically relevant man-made and natural disasters from the 20th century |
Narrated by | Ashton Smith Richard Vaughan Peter Guinness |
Composer | Graham Reilly |
Country of origin | United States / United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 7 |
No. of episodes | 69 (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 30/40–50 minutes |
Production companies | National Geographic Society Darlow Smithson Productions |
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Network | National Geographic |
Release | July 6, 2004 (2004-07-06) – February 22, 2018 (2018-02-22) |
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Seconds from Disaster was first broadcast on the National Geographic channel in 2004 and originally consisted of 45 episodes over three seasons. Following its original conclusion in 2007, the show was put on a four-year hiatus and later replaced with Critical Situation. In 2011, National Geographic revived the show and aired another 22 episodes over three seasons until the following year. In 2018, the show revived again and aired two episodes featuring compilations about helicopter and airliner crashes.[2] Narrators of the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan, and Peter Guinness.
"Disasters don't just happen. They are a chain of critical events. Unravel the fateful decisions in those final seconds from disaster."