Latest episodes
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24 min
The Orlando Nightclub shooting
30-year-old Eddie Justice hears bangs over the music. Like many others at Pulse Nightclub, he and his friends don’t understand where the sound is coming from. Maybe it's just part…
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27 min
The Holodomor
All the animals have gone. There are no birds singing in the trees, no cats playing in the streets. When Vasyl returns home after a failed hunting trip, the family dog is nowhere t…
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26 min
The Sichuan School Disaster
Principal Ye Zhiping has to make it back. A massive earthquake has just hit his province Sichuan, and all he can think about is whether his students and teachers are okay. When he…
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24 min
The AMIA Bombing
Anita doesn’t know how much time has passed. But she knows she has to get out. The building is collapsing around her, and people are stumbling over each other trying to find an esc…
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29 min
The Sinking of MV Sewol
The water is rising. What just seconds ago was the wall, is now a slippery floor submerged under ice cold ocean. Ae-Jin knows that she has to reach the door in the ceiling. That th…
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23 min
The 1985 Mexico City Earthquake
Oscar Flores can feel the floor starting to shake. Soon, the ceiling is falling down in large chunks, and the walls are folding like paper. He doesn't know that what he's experienc…
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30 min
The Alexander Kielland Platform Collapse
In this episode, we will tell you about the Alexander Kielland disaster of 1980, one of the worst oil rig accidents in history. The hosts of this episode are Maya Nalani and Luke W…
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33 min
Three Mile Island
In this episode, we tell the story of the worst nuclear accident in the United States. A story about a partial meltdown that threatened the lives of hundreds of people. And about h…
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28 min
Bloody Sunday
Barney McGuigan hears a man pleading for help. The others try to stop him, but to no avail. Barney goes out to the injured man with a white cloth in his hand. "Don't shoot me," he…
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29 min
The Amazon Plane Crash
When Juliane wakes up, everything is quiet. The ground beneath her is wet and muddy, and above her, palm leaves shield her from the sun. Juliane has just woken up in the middle of…
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29 min
The Columbia Space Shuttle
Outside Dallas, Texas, space enthusiasts are watching the dark silhouette of a shuttle pass by, surrounded by its fiery glow. But suddenly, the fire breaks up into several smaller…
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31 min
The Maersk Alabama Hijacking
Captain Phillips is woken up at 03.30 AM. The person on the so-called 'dog watch' between midnight and four o'clock has reported hearing strange voices on the radio. The message is…
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34 min
The Utøya Terror Attack
14-year-old Torje sees a boat sailing just a short distance away and knows that this is his chance. So he jumps into the cold water and starts swimming. But he doesn't get far befo…
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32 min
The 2017 Manchester Bombing at the Ariana Grande Concert
Martin lies on the floor in a pool of blood. A bit further away is his daughter. A red stain slowly spreads out beneath her. Martin's entire world shatters. It's his fault they are…
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30 min
The Boston Molasses Disaster
Martin is soaked in something wet and cold. The ground beneath him is covered in over a foot of molasses. Confused, Martin thinks he’s fallen off a boat out at sea. He doesn't real…
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29 min
The Aberfan Disaster
When Gaynor Madgwick wakes up, she has been thrown to the other side of the classroom. She is lying on top of one of her classmates, Gerald Kirwan. Around them, the classroom has b…
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29 min
The White Island Volcanic Eruption
Far beneath the sea, the heart of the volcano has begun to beat. Stephanie has no time to think and starts running for her life. A dark shadow rises into the sky, a huge black clou…
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30 min
The Prisoners' Revenge - New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot
25-year-old Lawrence doesn't know what to do. All that separates him from countless rioting prisoners is a thin panel of bulletproof glass. On the other side, there is complete cha…
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29 min
Hindenburg - The death of Airships
On May 6th 1937, radio listeners in New Jersey got the broadcast of a lifetime. They are listening to presenter Herbert Morrison describe the landing of the Hindenburg zeppelin, an…
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30 min
The Astroworld Disaster
It’s November 2021, and the Astroworld festival in Houston is in full swing. The crowd is releasing all the pent-up energy from the pandemic, and in the middle of it, Madeline Eski…