Seconds from Disaster

Overview

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.

Series details

First air date

2005

Last air date

2018

Status

Ended

Seasons

7

Episodes

75

Episode runtime

45 min

Genres

Documentary

Original language

EN

Origin country

US

Networks

National Geographic

Production

DSP

Cast

R

Richard Vaughn

Narrator

A

Ashton Smith

Narrator (US) / Narrator

Peter Guinness

Narrator (voice) / Narrator

Ryo Takagi

Self

A

Andrew Sullivan

Self

Timothy McVeigh

Self (archival footage)