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''Surviving Disaster'' is a 2006
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, Discovery Channel, and ProSieben co-production documentary-drama series about
disaster A disaster is a serious problem occurring over a short or long period of time that causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources ...
s in the 20th century, starring people who survived them. It was produced in association with
France 5 France 5 () is a French free-to-air public television channel, part of the France Télévisions group. Principally featuring educational programming, the channel's motto is ''la chaîne de la connaissance et du savoir'' (the knowledge network). ...
. It is narrated by
Bernard Hill Bernard Hill (born 17 December 1944) is an English actor. He is well recognized for playing King Théoden in ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy, Captain Edward Smith in ''Titanic'', and Luther Plunkitt, the Warden of San Quentin Prison in t ...
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Episodes

# "Munich Air Crash" – 1958 Munich air disaster # "Eruption at Mount St. Helens" –
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens On March 27, 1980, a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States. A series of phreatic blasts occurred from the summit and escalated until a major explosive er ...
# "Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster" –
1986 Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 nuclear reactor, reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainia ...
(This episode is commonly referred to as "BBC's Chernobyl" in discussion, to compare and differentiate it from HBO's ''
Chernobyl Chernobyl ( , ; russian: Чернобыль, ) or Chornobyl ( uk, Чорнобиль, ) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about no ...
'', which it is frequently compared to) # "San Francisco Earthquake" – 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake # "Fastnet Yacht Race" –
1979 Fastnet race The 1979 Fastnet Race was the 28th Royal Ocean Racing Club's Fastnet Race, a yachting race held generally every two years since 1925 on a 605-mile course from Cowes direct to the Fastnet Rock and then to Plymouth via south of the Isles of S ...
# "Iran Hostage Rescue" – 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis # "The Sinking of the Estonia" – 1994 sinking of the Estonia


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* 2000s British television series BBC television documentaries Documentary films about disasters Science docudramas {{BBC-tv-prog-stub