Seconds from Disaster

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Seconds from Disaster
Title card used between 2011 and 2018
Genre	Documentary
Based on	Historically relevant man-made and natural disasters from the 20th century
Narrated by	Ashton Smith Richard Vaughan Peter Guinness
Composer	Graham Reilly
Country of origin	United States / United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	69 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	30/40–50 minutes
Production companies	National Geographic Society Darlow Smithson Productions
Original release
Network	National Geographic
Release	July 6, 2004 (2004-07-06) – February 22, 2018 (2018-02-22)
Related
Seismic Seconds Critical Situation
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Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters from the 20th and early 21st centuries. Each episode aims to explain a single incident by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately affected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience.^[1]

Seconds from Disaster was first broadcast on the National Geographic channel in 2004 and originally consisted of 45 episodes over three seasons. Following its original conclusion in 2007, the show was put on a four-year hiatus and later replaced with Critical Situation. In 2011, National Geographic revived the show and aired another 22 episodes over three seasons until the following year. In 2018, the show revived again and aired two episodes featuring compilations about helicopter and airliner crashes.^[2] Narrators of the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan, and Peter Guinness.

"Disasters don't just happen. They are a chain of critical events. Unravel the fateful decisions in those final seconds from disaster."