Season 5
6 episodes · premiered Mar 11, 2012
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E1 Japan's Nuclear Nightmare
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s coast caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
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E2 Bismarck
Maritime Historian Andrew Lambert looks at the Royal Navy's battle with the German battleship Bismarck.
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E3 Mountain Tsunami
In 1963 a landslide from Monte Toc into the reservoir of the Europe's highest dam caused a giant flood wave that destroyed the village of Longarone and other villages, claiming over 2,000 lives.
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E4 Waco Cult
After a 51-day siege at the ranch of an armed religious cult, the FBI tries to force people out with tear gas, but a fire breaks out and almost 80 people die.
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E5 Deepwater Horizon
A look at the series of decisions and mistakes that led to the world's largest oil spill disaster, and that 11 workers on the rig died.
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E6 Massacre in Mumbai
On 26 November 2008, terrorists attacked two luxury hotels (one of them the famous Taj Mahal Hotel), a Jewish educational center, a café and a train station in Mumbai, killing 166 people.