Seconds from Disaster
2005•12•7 Seasons•69 Episodes•7.2•Ended
Documentary
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
Seven Network, Viceland, Fox Life, National Geographic
Origin
US
Cast
Ashton Smith
Narrator
Episodes
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