TV series
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.
Details
- First air date
- 2005-09-19
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 7 seasons
- Episodes
- 69 episodes
- Genres
- Documentary
- Network
- Seven Network, Viceland, Fox Life, National Geographic
- Production
- DSP
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Richard Vaughn as Narrator
- Ashton Smith as Narrator (US)
- Peter Guinness as Narrator
- Ryo Takagi as Self
- Andrew Sullivan as Self
- Timothy McVeigh as Self (archival footage)
- Boris Stolyarchuk as Self
- Bill Clinton as Self (archival footage)
- Anders Behring Breivik as Self (archival footage)
- Jim Jones as Self (archival footage)
- Ankie Spitzer as Self
- Manfred Schreiber as Himself
Creators and crew
- Jennifer Apostol - Executive Producer
- Ben Bowie - Executive Producer
- Iain Riddick - Producer
- Dan Gold - Producer
- Andrew Stevenson - Producer
- Jim Greayer - Producer
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