Surviving Disaster
Natural and man-made catastrophes retold by eyewitnesses and dramatic reconstructions.
Episodes
6 February 1958: the plane carrying Manchester United crashes during take-off in Germany, killing 23 of the 43 on board, including eight members of th...
Eruption at Mount St Helens. Rising almost 10,000 feet over Washington State, the volcano had not erupted for more than 100 years until May 1980, when...
April 1986: a blast at a Soviet nuclear plant emits 400 times more radiation than Hiroshima's bomb. Adrian Edmondson stars in a drama documentary reca...
17 October 1989: a tremor measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale causes major damage to the coastal city, trapping scores of drivers on the Cypress freewa...
Terror awaited men and women sailing in the infamous offshore race of August 1979. This drama documentary reconstructs the ferocious Irish Sea storm t...
In November 1979, Iranian militants seized the US embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage. President Carter ordered an elite US military force...
Once a symbol of independence for the Estonian people, the ferry ventured into the Baltic's high winds and ferocious waves in September 1994. Under pr...
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TMDB Reviews
Peter McGinn
TMDB4 years ago
These episodes are fairly well done in my opinion. I found that my interest in them varied according to how interested I was in the particular disaster. Fro example, I have seen and read a bit about Chernobyl, so the different perspective and portrayals were appreciated.
I feel they did a good job with the special effects of recreating event, and the acting was adequate for this type of drama/documentary.
