Episode guide
Seconds from Disaster: Season 5
6 episodes · first aired Mar 11, 2012
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- 1 Japan's Nuclear Nightmare Mar 11, 2012 · 45m On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s coast caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
- 2 Bismarck Mar 18, 2012 · 45m Maritime Historian Andrew Lambert looks at the Royal Navy's battle with the German battleship Bismarck.
- 3 Mountain Tsunami Mar 25, 2012 · 45m 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…
- 4 Waco Cult Apr 1, 2012 · 45m 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.
- 5 Deepwater Horizon Apr 15, 2012 · 45m 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.
- 6 Massacre in Mumbai Apr 22, 2012 · 45m 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.