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TV series

Seconds from Disaster

2005 · 7 seasons · 75 episodes

7.2

TMDB audience score
30 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

About 56h 15m to watch every episode. An estimate: 75 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 45 minutes.

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Main cast

  • Richard Vaughn
    Narrator
    54 episodes

  • Ashton Smith
    Narrator (US)
    53 episodes

  • Peter Guinness
    Narrator (voice)
    19 episodes

  • Ryo Takagi
    Self
    1 episode

  • Andrew Sullivan
    Self
    1 episode

  • Timothy McVeigh
    Self (archival footage)
    1 episode

  • Boris Stolyarchuk
    Self
    1 episode

  • Bill Clinton
    Self (archival footage)
    1 episode

  • Anders Behring Breivik
    Self (archival footage)
    1 episode

  • Jim Jones
    Self (archival footage)
    1 episode

  • Ankie Spitzer
    Self
    1 episode

  • Manfred Schreiber
    Himself
    1 episode

  • Laura Swift
    Theresa
    1 episode

  • Lou Kasischke
    Self
    1 episode

  • Lene Gammelgaard
    Self
    1 episode

  • Neal Beidleman
    Himself
    1 episode

  • Gilles Logelin
    Self
    1 episode

  • John Hutchinson
    Self
    1 episode

Seasons