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.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Crash of the Concorde | 2004-07-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Tunnel Inferno | 2004-07-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Bomb in Oklahoma City | 2004-07-20 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Fire Onboard the Star (Fire on the Star) | 2004-07-27 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | High Speed Train Wreck (Derailment at Eschede) | 2004-08-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Wreck of the Sunset Limited | 2004-08-10 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Meltdown in Chernobyl | 2004-08-17 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Inferno at Guadalajara | 2004-08-24 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Fire on the Ski Slope | 2004-08-31 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Explosion in the North Sea | 2004-10-05 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Flood at Stava Dam | 2004-10-12 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Collision on the Runway | 2004-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | Pentagon 9/11 | 2004-10-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Columbia's Last Flight (Space Shuttle Columbia) | 2005-06-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Alpine Tsunami | 2005-07-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Motorway Plane Crash | 2005-07-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Mount St. Helens Eruption | 2005-07-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster | 2005-08-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Killer Quake (Kobe Earthquake) | 2005-08-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | Crash Landing in Sioux City | 2005-09-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Disco Bombing (The Bali Bombing) | 2005-09-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Hotel Collapse | 2005-09-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | TWA Flight 800 | 2005-10-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | Runaway Train (Paris Train Crash) | 2005-11-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | Hindenburg Airship | 2005-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 13 | Puerto Rico Gas Explosion | 2005-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Skywalk Collapse | 2006-01-10 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Amsterdam Air Crash | 2006-03-28 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Kursk: Russia's Nuclear Nightmare | 2006-04-18 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | King's Cross Fire (London's Subway Inferno) | 2006-05-19 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Nairobi Bombing | 2006-06-27 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Everglades Plane Crash | 2006-07-11 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Titanic | 2006-07-25 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aircraft Carrier Explosion | 2006-08-15 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Queens Air Crash | 2006-09-06 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | Munich Olympic Massacre | 2006-09-13 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | Superstore Collapse | 2006-09-20 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 12 | Plane Crash in the Potomac | 2006-09-27 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 13 | Asian Tsunami | 2006-10-25 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 14 | Comet Air Crash | 2006-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 15 | Flight Engine Down | 2006-11-29 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 16 | Oil Fire in Texas | 2006-12-06 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 17 | Tornado Outbreak | 2007-01-02 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 18 | Space Shuttle Challenger | 2007-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 19 | Eruption on Montserrat | 2007-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | 9/11 | 2011-09-05 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | Pearl Harbor | 2011-09-12 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Paddington Train Collision | 2011-09-19 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Collision at 35,000 Feet | 2011-09-26 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Cable Car Collision | 2011-10-03 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | Bhopal Nightmare | 2011-10-10 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | Japan's Nuclear Nightmare | 2012-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | Bismarck | 2012-03-18 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Mountain Tsunami | 2012-03-25 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | Waco Cult | 2012-04-01 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Deepwater Horizon | 2012-04-15 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | Massacre in Mumbai | 2012-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | Norway Massacre: I Was There | 2012-07-22 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | Jonestown Cult Suicide | 2012-11-05 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | Fire in the Cockpit | 2012-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | Black Hawk Down | 2012-11-19 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | Into The Death Zone | 2012-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | Terrified Over Tokyo | 2012-12-03 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | Runaway Train | 2012-12-10 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 8 | Nagasaki - The Forgotten Bomb | 2012-12-17 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 9 | Sinking the Coventry | 2012-12-24 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 10 | Chinook Helicopter Crash | 2013-01-07 | 60 min |
