Seconds from Disaster

S06E04 - Black Hawk Down

30.3. 01:55

National Geographic

75 minutes

2011

On October 3–4, 1993, what should have been a simple snatch and grab operation for the US Army in Somalia turns into a battle that kills 18 US Rangers and around 1,000 Somali civilians.

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Czech, English, Hungarian

2011

Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incidental by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately effected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience.

Narrators for the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan and Peter Guinness.