Seconds from Disaster
200545m / epDocumentary
First aired
September 19, 2005
TMDB Score
72% match · 30 votes
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June 1998. The new German InterCity Express is a trip from Munich to Hamburg, one of many. Today should be no different. The new train offers the ultimate luxury in high-speed travel. But a terrible accident sets off a chain of events causing the loss of 101 lives when the train derails catastrophically at the town of Eschede. But what caused such a horrible accident?
About the Series

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
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