Seconds From Disaster - Season 5 (2012)

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

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

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.

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.

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.