Seconds from Disaster

200545m / epDocumentary

First aired

September 19, 2005

7.2

TMDB Score

72% match · 30 votes

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Tunnel Inferno

Season 1 · Oct 10, 2005 · 47m

Mont Blanc is one of the highest mountains in Europe, with a seven-mile long tunnel connecting France and Italy through the Alps. One March day in 1999, a Belgian Truck carrying flour and margarine catches fire in the tunnel, creating a blaze which burns for 53 hours, killing 39 people. A team of investigators set out to prove what caused such a terrible fire, and why all tunnels could be merely Seconds from Disaster

About the Series

Seconds from Disaster poster
Documentary

Synopsis

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.

First aired
September 19, 2005
Last aired
February 22, 2018
Seasons
7 seasons · 75 episodes
Status
Ended
Original language
English
Network
National Geographic

Top Billed Cast

AS

Ashton Smith

Narrator

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