Dam Disaster

Dam Disaster

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S1 E6: On October 9, 1963, a massive landslide slammed into a dam reservoir, unleashing a six-billion-gallon wall of water onto an unsuspecting village. In less than five terrifying minutes, over 1,500 people were killed and a town was reduced to little more than mud and rubble. Revisit the 1963 Vajont Dam tragedy, one of the world’s worst man-made disasters in history, through the firsthand accounts of those swept up in the calamity.