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Seconds from Disaster

Seconds from Disaster

Description: Advanced computer graphics, forensic science, eyewitness accounts, interviews with experts, archival footage and re-enactments piece together in great detail the events that led to some of the biggest disasters of modern time.
Genre: Documentary
Year Released: 2004
Number of seasons: 7
Number of episodes: 69
First episode air date: July 6, 2004
Followed By: Critical Situation
Narrated By: Ashton Smith, Peter Guinness
Networks: National Geographic, National Geographic Society
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