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This short documentary (part two of two) tells the story of the Mount Everest Disaster of 1996, when dozens of climbers became trapped in a blizzard at the peak of Mout Everest...

This short documentary tells the story of the Eriksson Sisters, who caused chaos on a crucial UK motorway in May 2008...

This short documentary tells the story of the 2015 crash which took place on the Smiler rollercoaster at the UK theme park Alton Towers...

This short documentary covers the catastrophic collapse of the "Big Blue" construction crane in Milwaukee in 1999...

This short documentary tells the story of three unusual food-related deaths, from a teenager killed by a single corn chip, to a outbreak of botulism linked to nacho cheese...

This short documentary tells the story of a train crash so shocking that it came to be known as the "Angola Horror"...

In the mid-1800s a very strange property of frogs was discovered: they could both detect and create an electrical current...

This short documentary covers three stories about fatal accidents that have taken place while filming reality television series, from heart attacks to helicopter crashes...

This short documentary tells the story of the 1978 Holiday Inn Fire - a deadly disaster which remains, in part, unexplained to this day...

This short documentary tells the story of the Mount Hood disaster: a school trip that went terribly wrong in 1986...

This short documentary tells the stories of three people who fell overboard while on a pleasure cruise at sea...

This short documentary covers a deadly supermarket fire which took place in Paraguay in 2004: the Ycuá Bolaños fire...

Alien Hand Syndrome is a rare and perturbing condition where one hand acts without the conscious intention of its owner...

This short documentary explores a series of accidents which resulted ina rider going blind after riding the Dragon Challenge rollercoaster at Universal's Islands of Adventure...

This short "documentary" tells the story of the emergency of Mount Wilshire, a volcano which almost destroyed LA in 1997...

This short documentary tells the story of the Filair Let-410 crash in 2010, which was allegedly caused by an escaped crocodile...

This short documentary covers the worst elevator accident in history, which took place at the Vaal Reefs gold mine in 1995...

TempleOS is a completely unique computer system built over the course of several years by one man who believed he was working on instructions from a higher power...

This short documentary tells the story of the 1976 heatwave that gripped Britain, costing more than 2,000 lives...

This short documentary tells the story of the Wowowee Disaster - a crowd crush in the Philippines that took place at the filming of a popular TV gameshow, and which resulted in the loss of 73 lives...

This short documentary tells the story of a 1959 plane crash in a field in Iowa that would later become known as "the day the music died"...

This short documentary covers a devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami - a double disaster that struck Japan in 2011...

This short documentary tells the story of a triple nuclear meltdown which took place at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant following a tsunami in 2011...

This short documentary tells the story of two people who made a momentary mistake when on safari, and paid with their lives...

This short documentary tells the story of Operation Tiger - a disastrous WWII training exercise that cost more than 700 soldiers their lives...

This short documentary tells the story of BOAC Flight 911 - a plane that disintegrated in mid-air just a few minutes after take-off...

This short documentary tells the story of a bizarre bioterror attack on a small city in Oregon by fringe members of a local cult...

This short documentary tells the story of a 2018 disaster which saw the sinking of a fully loaded amphibious tour bus...

Thes short documentary tells the story of the sinking of the Doña Paz in 1987 - a disaster that has since come to be known as "Asia's Titanic"...

This short documentary tells the story of the Black Tom explosion - a blast caused by sabotage during World War One that almost took out the Statue of Liberty...

This short documentary covers the fatal 2023 crash of the Jetline rollercoaster at the Gröna Lund theme park in Sweden...

This short documentary tells the story of the accidental fatal shooting ehich took place on set of the indie western movie Rust in 2021...

This short documentary tells the story of the 2022 Paria Pipeline Accident, in which five divers were sucked into and trapped inside an oil pipeline...

This short documentary tells the story of the Ohio State Penitentiary Fire of 1930, during which more than 300 prisoners died in their cells...

This short documentary tells the story of Eastern Airlines Flight 212, which crashed while the pilots engaged in idle chitchat in the cockpit...

This short documentary tells the story of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon, two hikers in Panam who - for reasons unknown - left the tourist trail, and were never seen alive again...

This short documentary tells the story of the L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire - a deadly blaze that claimed 32 lives, in part due to the inherent difficulty in evacuating care homes...

This short documentary tells the story of the Tower of Power ride accident, which left a teenage park guest with life-changing injuries in 2007...

This short documentary covers the history of the 'human cannonball' stunt, including a version that went fatally wrong in 2011...

This short documentary tell the story of the historic Dangerous Sports Club, and a deadly trebuchet accident that took place during the outing of a related extreme sports group...

This short documentary tells the story of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake - a devastating natural disaster that reshaped New Zealand's second city...

This short documentary tells the story of Balin Miller - a veteran alpinist who spent his life racking up incredible achievements, only to die after making one of the simplest possible errors...

This short documentary tells the story of three unusual deaths caused by food, from a massive caffeine overdose to a medical case study involving leftover spaghetti...