''Surviving Disaster'' is a 2006

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co-production documentary-drama series about

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s in the 20th century, starring people who survived them. It was produced in association with

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Episodes

# "Munich Air Crash" – 1958 Munich air disaster # "Eruption at Mount St. Helens" –

1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens In March 1980, a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States. A series of Phreatic eruption, phreatic blasts occurred from the summit and escalated until a major ...

# "Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster" – 1986 Chernobyl disaster # "San Francisco Earthquake" –

1989 Loma Prieta earthquake On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. Pacific Time Zone, PST, the Loma Prieta earthquake occurred at the Central Coast (California), Central Coast of California. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz Cou ...

# "Fastnet Yacht Race" – 1979 Fastnet race # "Iran Hostage Rescue" – 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis # "The Sinking of the Estonia" – 1994 sinking of the Estonia

References

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