Seconds From Disaster

The Royal Navy's battle with Bismarck is a pivotal point in the Second World War.

In 1960 construction of Europe's tallest dam is completed in in the Vajont Valley in Northern Italy - the jewel in the crown of an ambitious hydro-electric generation scheme.

Waco, Texas. On February 28th 1993 the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms raid a compound belonging to a religious cult called the Branch Davidians.

In March 2011 the most powerful recorded earthquake ever to hit Japan sends a 14m high tsunami surging into the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station. The subsequent chain of events resulted in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl and brought into question the safety of nuclear power around the world.

The Deepwater Horizon rig has finished drilling the Macondo Well for BP in the Gulf of Mexico.