The Best Episodes of Seconds From Disaster Season 5

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.7/10(47 votes)

   #1 - Japan's Nuclear Nightmare

   S5:E13/11/2012

   On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s coast caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.

   Director:Steve Webb

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   7.6/10(43 votes)

   #2 - Bismarck

   S5:E23/18/2012

   Maritime Historian Andrew Lambert looks at the Royal Navy's battle with the German battleship Bismarck.

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   7.6/10(46 votes)

   #3 - Mountain Tsunami

   S5:E33/25/2012

   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.

   Director:Unknown

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   7.0/10(34 votes)

   #4 - Waco Cult

   S5:E44/1/2012

   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.

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   7.6/10(41 votes)

   #5 - Deepwater Horizon

   S5:E54/15/2012

   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.

   Director:Unknown

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   7.7/10(38 votes)

   #6 - Massacre in Mumbai

   S5:E64/22/2012

   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.

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