Seconds from Disaster

200545m / epDocumentary

First aired

September 19, 2005

7.2

TMDB Score

72% match · 30 votes

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S01 · E05

Derailment at Eschede (High Speed Train Wreck)

Season 1 · Sep 26, 2005 · 47m

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

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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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