Mapping Disaster

Witness to Disaster

September 2025 •English

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.

The Great Kanto Earthquake: Three Days of Ruin in Tokyo

September 2025 •English

A century after the Great Kanto Earthquake, previously unknown details have been extracted from newly 8K remastered and colorized footage, vividly demonstrating how Tokyo citizens faced the disaster.

Mayday

September 2025 •English

Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.

Surviving Disaster

September 2025 •English

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

Zero Hour

September 2025 •English

Zero Hour dramatizes the hour leading up to some of the most memorable historical events as they unfold minute by minute. Using a real-time clock and a split screen to follow key players, the series reveals the compelling and exciting minutes leading up to events that changed the world.

Modern Marvels

September 2025 •English

HISTORY’s longest-running series moves to H2. Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuity, invention and imagination found in the world around us. From commonplace items like ink and coffee to architectural masterpieces and engineering disasters, the hit series goes beyond the basics to provide insight and history into things we wonder about and that impact our lives. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and sometime-schemers that create everyday items, technological breakthroughs and manmade wonders. The hit series goes deep to explore the leading edge of human inspiration and ambition.

Alaska Aircrash Investigations

September 2025 •English

Ride along with the NTSB and its inter-agency partners as they work together towards determining the probable cause of aircraft accidents. These NTSB investigations provide a window into the integral role of air travel in Alaskan life, while raising awareness that might prevent future accidents.

Seconds From Disaster

September 2025 •English

Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incidental by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately effected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience. Narrators for the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan and Peter Guinness.

Days That Shaped America

September 2025 •English

Historic events that forever transformed the United States.

Lac-Mégantic - This Is Not an Accident

September 2025 •French

Lac-Mégantic investigates one of the worst oil train tragedies in history: a foreseeable catastrophe ignited by corporate and political negligence.

The Kielland Disaster

September 2025 •Norwegian

123 people died when the Norwegian semi-submersible housing platform Alexander L. Kielland capsized in the North Sea in 1980. Survivors and relatives of the deceased still have many questions. What really happened?

Descent from Disaster

September 2025 •English

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

What Happened Next?

September 2025 •English

Kamichu!

September 2025 •Japanese

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 Yurie announces this fact to her best friend Mitsue, their classmate Mitsuri takes advantage of Yurie's new divinity to revitalize her family's dying shrine. Yurie is nicknamed Kamichu and now must go on with her godly duties while going to school and winning the heart of her crush, Kenji, while Mitsuri tries to replace her old shrine god Yashima with her.

Ultraman Nexus

September 2025 •Japanese

The TLT is a covert international anti-monster unit established secretly to combat Space Beasts, mysterious monsters that are out to attack humans in the year 2009. One of the TLT's new recruits, Kazuki Komon, is attacked by one of them prior to reporting for duty. However, he is saved by a silver giant that he names "Ultraman". What no one knows is that the silver giant is an Ultraman — to be precise, Ultraman Nexus, ready to fight the Space Beasts to save the planet Earth.

Blood Blockade Battlefront

September 2025 •Japanese

One day, New York City as we know it vanished overnight into a mysterious fog. Now known as Hellsalem's Lot, it has become a place where another world beyond imagining is connected to our reality. The balance within this new world is protected by a secret society known as Libra. Leo, a journalist and photographer who arrives in the city, is unexpectedly recruited to join their ranks.

CAT. 8

September 2025 •English

When a breakthrough in global defense malfunctions, the result is a fireball four times the size of Earth streaking toward the planet. As fires blaze and panic spreads, a renegade scientist comes to the world’s rescue.

Light Chaser Rescue

September 2025 •Chinese

In the aftermath of the earthquake in Xichuan, lawyer Luo Ben went there to look for his sister, Luo Yuan. This is his first time meeting the non-profit rescue team led by Captain Qingshan and then he met with an old enemy Zhan Yan. Luo Ben was deeply impressed by the mutual support of the people in the affected areas and the sacrifice made by the rescue workers. He was also impressed by the superb medical skills and selflessness of Zhan Yan. Luo Ben, Xiong Fei, Zhou Mingming, Ding Dingding, and other newcomers joined the Yuanfang Non-profit rescue team, under Captain Qingshan's rigorous training, and became rescue team members, they, again and again, participated in various rescue operations, for earthquakes, fires, drowning, typhoons. Walking away from the direction of life, saving lives using their lives, through the baptism of disaster and they eventually grow into the rescue elites.

Sai

September 2025 •Japanese

A mysterious man appears before six individuals, each struggling with their own issues, as an impending disaster disrupts their lives, unraveling suspense and psychological tension.

Parallel Tokyo

September 2025 •Japanese

An earthquake directly beneath the Tokyo metropolitan area is said to occur with a 70% probability within 30 years. Staged in a news center of a TV station where a huge amount of damage information and images are gathered.