Surviving Disaster

HISTORY’s longest-running series moves to H2. Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuity, invention and imagination found in the world around us....

Cold War bomb shelters, secret vaults and underground railway tunnels, abandoned factories and the highest rooftops become the objects of...

Natural and man-made catastrophes retold by eyewitnesses and dramatic reconstructions.

Estonia tells the story of the tragic accident of the car-ferry MS Estonia, which deeply shocked the world in the autumn of 1994. Through the moving...

123 people died when the Norwegian semi-submersible housing platform Alexander L. Kielland capsized in the North Sea in 1980. Survivors and relatives...

Historic events that forever transformed the United States.

Natural and man-made catastrophes retold by eyewitnesses and dramatic reconstructions.

Yurie is just an ordinary middle school girl in the 1980's - until overnight she finds out that she is a Kami, or God, in the Shinto sense. When...

As an asteroid hurtles towards Earth with nothing to stop it, one determined teacher fights to keep her former students safe — no matter the...

Retrace some of NZ's darkest days to reveal the stories, secrets and lessons learnt from our most famous disasters. 

An exploration of the societal consequences when a nation's financial, technological, political, and environmental systems collapse. Told in eight...

Japan has a long history of natural disasters. BOSAI explores how to overcome them and save lives with the power of science.