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Mayday

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No one is prepared for disaster. No one knows how they’ll react in a plane crash, an earthquake or when a lone gunman decides to open fire. On Mayday we tell you about the people w...

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Episode list

10

  • September 1, 2024

    23 min

    The Orlando Nightclub shooting

    30-year-old Eddie Justice hears bangs over the music. Like many others at Pulse Nightclub, he and his friends don’t understand where the sound is coming from. Maybe it's just part ...

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  • August 18, 2024

    26 min

    The Holodomor

    All the animals have gone. There are no birds singing in the trees, no cats playing in the streets. When Vasyl returns home after a failed hunting trip, the family dog is nowhere t...

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  • August 4, 2024

    26 min

    The Sichuan School Disaster

    Principal Ye Zhiping has to make it back. A massive earthquake has just hit his province Sichuan, and all he can think about is whether his students and teachers are okay. When he ...

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  • July 21, 2024

    24 min

    The AMIA Bombing

    Anita doesn’t know how much time has passed. But she knows she has to get out. The building is collapsing around her, and people are stumbling over each other trying to find an esc...

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  • July 7, 2024

    28 min

    The Sinking of MV Sewol

    The water is rising. What just seconds ago was the wall, is now a slippery floor submerged under ice cold ocean. Ae-Jin knows that she has to reach the door in the ceiling. That th...

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  • June 23, 2024

    22 min

    The 1985 Mexico City Earthquake

    Oscar Flores can feel the floor starting to shake. Soon, the ceiling is falling down in large chunks, and the walls are folding like paper. He doesn't know that what he's experienc...

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