Situation Critical - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
North Hollywood Shoot-out
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.
Apollo 13
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.
Operation Certain Death
A group of rebels in the West African country of Sierra Leone had taken 11 British soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment hostage.
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.
Hunting Pablo Escobar
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.
Nightmare on Mt. Hood
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.
Coal Mine Disaster
Entebbe Hostage Rescue
When Palestinian terrorists hijacked air France plane flying from Israel to France, Israel launches daring rescue mission
Running Out of Air
Priz AS-28, a miniature submarine of the Russian Navy, becomes entangled in sunken fishing nets and the cables of a hydrophone array at a depth of 190 m in Berezovaya Bay off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. 2 days later, the submarine was successfully freed with no loss of life, thanks to the aid of a British remotely operated vehicle.
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