Bismarck

1Japan's Nuclear Nightmare

45 minMar 11, 2012

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

2Bismarck

45 minMar 18, 2012Now viewing

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

3Mountain Tsunami

45 minMar 25, 2012

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.

4Waco Cult

45 minApr 1, 2012

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.

5Deepwater Horizon

45 minApr 15, 2012

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.

6Massacre in Mumbai

45 minApr 22, 2012

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.