Situation Critical

Season

2007

USA

8.1

American documentary television series. Produced in conjunction with the National Geographic Channel, the series examines various disasters or violent incidents. It replaced Seconds From Disaster, a similar program with a more forensic approach.

Episode List

S1 • E1

North Hollywood Shootout

When two policemen noticed two heavily armed criminals with body armor robbing a branch of the Bank of America in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, they called the local police department for support. A gun battle lasting almost 45 minutes ensued; one criminal committed suicide, the other was killed by the S.W.A.T. team. 18 officers and civilians are wounded.

S1 • E2

Taliban Uprising

A National Geographic documentary about the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi (War House) located in Northern Afghanistan, from Novermber 26, 2001 to December 1, 2001.

S1 • E3

SAS Jungle Rescue

Elite British soldiers must mount a daring rescue in a diamond rich African trouble-spot to save British peacekeepers and a Sierra Leone Army officer kidnapped by a notorious rebel gang.

S1 • E3

Operation Certain Death

S1 • E4

Apollo 13

In April 1970, Apollo 13 experiences an equipment malfunction and is badly damaged. With dwindling oxygen, power and food supplies, the crew must fight against time to make it back to earth, over 300 000 km away

S1 • E5

Downed Pilot

The dramatized account of an USAF pilot shot down behind enemy lines in Bosnia in 1995 and his struggle to evade capture and get rescued.

S1 • E6

Hell on High Water

The story of the 1998 Sydney-Hobart yacht race. A massive storm develops and the weather deteriorates to such a degree that six sailors eventually lose their lives. Eyewitness accounts and news footage illustrate the terror that ensued.

S1 • E7

Killing Pablo

In the 1980s and 1990s, Pablo Escobar made billions as one of the world's biggest drug dealers. The U.S. backed a massive manhunt to bring Escobar to justice. Retrace the effort to assassinate the most feared man in Columbia.

S1 • E8

Moscow Siege

Chechen terrorists storm the Dubrovka Theatre in central Moscow in 2002. With 900 people trapped inside, President Putin refuses to negotiate and a top secret plan is hatched to rescue the hostages.

S1 • E9

Entebbe Hostage Rescue

When Palestinian terrorists hijacked air France plane flying from Israel to France, Israel launches daring rescue mission

S1 • E10

Running Out of Air

The rescue of the Russian Mini-sub AS-28 by the British Navy.

S1 • E11

Al Qaeda Ambush

Detailing the March 2002 battle of Takur Ghar in southeastern Afghanistan, when a group of US Special Forces came under attack from Al Qaeda fighters while trying to secure a remote mountain-top observation point, leading to an ill-fated and dramatic rescue mission. Seven soldiers lost their lives in what is considered one of the bloodiest battles for U.S. forces in the Afghan war. These dramatic events are shown through key first-hand accounts, reconstructed drama, advanced CGI and archive footage.

S1 • E12

Coal Mine Disaster

On July 24, 2002, a miner accidentally drills into an abandoned mine. A flood of water is unleashed on him and 17 of his co-workers. Nine escape, but the others are stranded and must fight the rising water level for more than 70 hours.