Episode 1
Tornado Outbreak
In April 2011, 360 tornadoes ravage the southern United States in four days, killing 348 people.
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TV series
Witness to Disaster
20191 season6.4 / 10
Hard-hitting amateur, CCTV and news footage reveals how some of the world's biggest natural disasters took away people's lives, homes and hope in Witness Disaster.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
Witness to Disaster premiered July 23, 2019. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
Hard-hitting amateur, CCTV and news footage reveals how some of the world's biggest natural disasters took away people's lives, homes and hope in Witness Disaster.
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Episode 2
Chilean Mine Rescue
A mine collapses in Chile, trapping 33 miners almost half a mile underground.
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Episode 3
California Mudslide
Montecito is hit by a devastating natural disaster that leaves its residents fighting for their lives. Overnight, the quiet Californian beach town is swamped by a terrifying series of thirty-feet high, boulder-filled debris flows that destroy homes and leave streets swimming in mud. Through eyewitness testimony and footage taken during the disaster, we reveal how split-seconds decisions made the difference between life and death.
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Episode 4
Portugal's Hellfire
The story of the largest fire in Portugal's history told by the people who were there.
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Episode 5
Everest Avalanche
Nepal is hit by a 6.7 mega-earthquake that kills thousands; across the country, survivors are hit by terrifying avalanches that destroy everything in their path; presenting stories of survival, from the Kathmandu Valley to Mount Everest.
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Episode 6
Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
On Oct. 1, 2015, the cargo ship El Faro is on a regular run to Puerto Rico when it disappears in a Category 4 storm called Hurricane Joaquin; it is determined that the El Faro sank off the coast of the Bahamas with 33 crew members.
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Cast
Jonathan Guy Lewis