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Japan's Nuclear Nightmare

Episode number: 1

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

Bismarck

Episode number: 2

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

Mountain Tsunami

Episode number: 3

Overview: 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.

Waco Cult

Episode number: 4

Overview: 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.

Deepwater Horizon

Episode number: 5

Overview: 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.

Massacre in Mumbai

Episode number: 6

Overview: 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.