Call 911 is a television show that premiered as a Court TV special on August 21, 2007, and began airing as a series on July 30, 2008 on Investigation Discovery. The series began airing on Discovery Fit & Health in February 2011. Each episode documents real 911 calls from people in trouble to emergency dispatchers. Call 911 was initially picked up as a twenty-episode series,but ...
From the crash of Air France flight 447 between Rio and Paris into the Atlantic in 2009, to the Germanwings flight 9525 crash in the Alps in 2015, the French investigators of the BEA (Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety) are called upon worldwide to determine the causes of air accidents. Line planes, helicopters, ultra-lights: BEA is investigating everythin...
Stories of humans against nature, heroism in the face of catastrophe, and deadly secrets buried at sea. Witness some of the most harrowing shipwrecks in modern history, presented through immersive firsthand accounts of the disasters and marine investigations that followed. From cruise liners to bulk carriers to fishing boats, we look back on the final moments of these doomed ve...
Around the world there are extraordinary building mistakes. Design teams, eyewitnesses and experts analyse what went wrong and how engineers are fixing them.
S5 E1 - San Francisco Freeway Fire
S5 E2 - Arizona Railroad Inferno
S5 E3 - Cincinnati Demolition Disaster
S5 E4 - California Bridge Collapse
S5 E5 - Atlantic City Casino Collapse
S5 E6 - New York Disaster Crane
S5 E7 - Pe...
Experts look at engineering blunders that have either caused catastrophes or are disasters waiting to happen. They use cutting-edge technology to examine what went wrong and to figure out if they can be fixed.
S4 E1 - Mayhem in Minneapolis
S4 E2 - Sinkhole at the Museum
S4 E3-Train of Terror
S4 E4-Terror in Texas
S4 E5 - Calamity Comes to Canada
S4 E6 - Nightmare in New Orleans...
Humans have been building for more than 10,000 years - were engineering experts and yet every year, tales emerge of construction calamities from all over the world. From the extraordinary to the ridiculous, this series uncovers the epic fails and near misses engineers would rather not talk about.
S2 E1 - Hell Tower NYC
S2 E2 - Skyscraper vs. Sinkhole
S2 E3 - Nightmare on Main S...
This series explores the most extraordinary and sometimes deadly engineering disasters around. Why did a brand-new bridge suddenly and tragically collapse How did drilling for oil trigger the largest whirlpool the US has ever seen And which Paris landmark hid a deadly design flaw From a skyscraper that threatened to rain lethal chunks of marble over downtown Chicago to a gas...
《空中浩劫》(Air Crash Investigation)是一个由加拿大的Cineflix公司所制作的纪录片节目。此节目主要介绍1970年代黑盒子发明之后所发生的近代重大航空事故。在第三季时,有三集穿插铁道事故及航海事故。
此节目在不同频道播出有不同的英文名称,于加拿大的Discovery频道播出时称为“Mayday”,在美国播出时称为“Air Emergency”,而在英国、法国和其他国家播出时称为“Air Crash Investigation”。
《空中浩劫》会以模拟演出的方式,分别以乘客、机师等不同人的视角,从一开始旅客登机、起飞,一直到事故发生、后续善后及调查为止,重现整个过程。在片中会穿插对于乘客及机师的访谈(若有生还者且其愿意受访时),另外也会访问空难调查人员、目击者等。取材以事故调查报告及相关新闻报道为主;若因调查单位不公开报告以...
世界貿易センタービルへの飛行機で突っ込むという衝撃的な光景から始まったアメリカ連続多発テロ事件から、3年。世界中の誰もがあの悲惨な光景は目に焼きついていることだろう。あのテロが起こったとき、世界貿易センタービルの中には日本企業の支社もあり、もちろん日本人も多く仕事をしていた。そして、日本人の方でもお亡くなりなった人たちはいる。本作はその中の1人、富士銀行に勤めていた杉山陽一氏の妻杉山晴美氏が、夫をテロ事件で失ったこと、そして、いかに乗り越えてきたかということを記した手記「天に昇った命、地に舞い降りた命」を映像化した話題作である。
このドラマは、杉山晴美さんがいかにして、テロ事件によって逝った夫の死を受け入れ、そして、新たに生まれくる命に希望を託し、前向きに生きようとする過程に重点を置いたドラマである。だから、アメリカ**やテロリストたちへの憎しみや...