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Seconds from Disaster

Name: Seconds from Disaster
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Richard Vaughn, Ashton Smith, Peter Guinness, Ryo Takagi, Andrew Sullivan

2005–2018 · 7 seasons, 75 episodes · 46m episodes · Documentary · National Geographic · United States · Rated 12 (BR)

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.

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Richard Vaughn, Ashton Smith, Peter Guinness, Ryo Takagi, Andrew Sullivan, Timothy McVeigh

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Not available to stream, rent or buy in United States.

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Tele2 Play: available in 1 country

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chernobyl, ukrainedisasterexplosion

Rating12 (BR)

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