The program is produced by Regina, Saskatchewan-based Partners in Motion.
Each episode documents two different disasters from Canada and around the world, using a mixture of re-enactments, photographs, and interviews with survivors and family members of victims.
For example, Washed Away investigates the destruction that water can cause, by looking at several disasters.
The following is an incomplete list of episodes, based on the information currently available: Hartford Circus Fire – 6 July 1944 – Of the approximately 9000 attendees, some 700 were injured and 168 were killed when the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus tent went up in flames during an afternoon performance in Hartford CT.
The new tent, the largest tent in the world at the time, had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline which caused the flames to spread quickly.