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S1, E2: 90 minutes after the initial quake that triggered the devastating 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, the first wave had already struck Indonesia and Thailand. But as this harrowing BBC Select documentary reveals, just as survivors attempted to come to terms with the horror around them, a second wave was bearing down on them. Was there anything they could have done to mitigate the destruction?
Documentary · Aug 23, 2021 · 43 min