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Mega Disasters

Mega Disasters

Description: Your car got booted while you were in the laundry discovering that they lost your favorite shirt. In short, it's been a lousy day. But it could be worse, as this unsettling series proves, using state-of-the-art computer animation to revisit past disasters and then depicting how a repeat of the catastrophe would affect the modern world.
Genre: Documentary
Year Released: 2006
Number of seasons: 3
Number of episodes: 38
First episode air date: May 23, 2006
Narrated By: J.V. Martin
Network: History
Genres: History, Science
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