Season 5
6 episodes
1. Japan's Nuclear Nightmare
45m · Mar 11, 2012
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s coast caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
2. Bismarck
45m · Mar 18, 2012
Maritime Historian Andrew Lambert looks at the Royal Navy's battle with the German battleship Bismarck.
3. Mountain Tsunami
45m · Mar 25, 2012
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.
4. Waco Cult
45m · Apr 1, 2012
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.
5. Deepwater Horizon
45m · Apr 15, 2012
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.
6. Massacre in Mumbai
45m · Apr 22, 2012
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.