The program focuses on retelling the details of tragic man-made disasters which each unfolded in less than an hour.
Three narrators were used over the three seasons, David Morrissey, Paul McGann and Sean Pertwee.
One example is the Columbine High School massacre episode, which had some scenes cut (for intense violence, profanity, and racist slurs) when broadcast on Discovery Channel.
The episodes included were: "Disaster at Chernobyl", "Massacre at Columbine High" (cut version), "Terror in Tokyo & The Bali Bombing", "The Capture of Saddam Hussein", "The King of Cocaine", "The Sinking of the Estonia", "The Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster", "A Royal Massacre", and "SAS Mission Impossible".
On 2 December 1993, Colombian drug lord and terrorist Pablo Escobar and his assistant were captured and killed by the Search Bloc forces in Colombia while trying to escape from the roof.