Seconds from Disaster

Seconds from Disaster

2005 · 7 seasons · 75 eps · ★ 7.2 · Documentary

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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.

Directed by Dan Gold

Networks: Seven Network, Viceland, Fox Life

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Richard Vaughn Narrator
Ashton Smith Narrator (US)
Peter Guinness Narrator
Ryo Takagi Self
Andrew Sullivan Self
Timothy McVeigh Self (archival footage)
Boris Stolyarchuk Self
Bill Clinton Self (archival footage)
Anders Behring Breivik Self (archival footage)
Jim Jones Self (archival footage)
Ankie Spitzer Self
Manfred Schreiber Himself

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