Zero Hour
TV Show · Documentary

Zero Hour dramatizes the hour leading up to some of the most memorable historical events as they unfold minute by minute. Using a real-time clock and a split screen to follow key players, the series reveals the compelling and exciting minutes leading up to events that changed the world. The focus of the series isn't the event itself, but individual moments that culminate in the actual event

2004 · 50m

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Disaster at Chernobyl
    At precisely 01:23:48 on a spring morning of April 26th 1986, the world changed forever. In Pripyat, Ukraine in the Soviet Union the largest nuclear reactor of its kind exploded at the Chernobyl Power Station. Disaster at Chernobyl uses previously undisclosed facts and eyewitness reports to reconstruct the events of the last fateful hour.
    50m
  • EPISODE 2
    Last Hour of Flight 11
    The Last Hours of Flight 11 dramatically recounts the final sixty minutes of American Airlines Flight 11 - an hour, and a flight, that changes the world forever. At 08:46 on the morning of September 11, 2001, Flight 11, a fully fueled Boeing 767, explodes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. It is the first terrorist strike on that day of infamy.
    50m
  • EPISODE 3
    Massacre at Columbine High
    Massacre At Columbine High chronicles the final hour that saw the worst high school massacre in American history. On the morning of April 20, 1999, in the affluent suburban town of Littleton, Colorado, Columbine High students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 students and one teacher, injured 23 others and then turned the guns on themselves.
    50m
  • EPISODE 4
    Terror In Tokyo
    During a busy rush-hour morning, Tokyo's elaborate underground Metro system is packed with commuters. All are unaware that it is about to become ground zero for an attempted mass murder. The attackers, members of a Japanese religious cult, Aum Shinrykio - or Aum the Supreme Truth - release the nerve agent Sarin in five separate train cars.
    50m
  • EPISODE 1
    The Bali Bombing
    On a balmy evening in October 2002, young Western tourists and Balinese revelers pack the bars and nightclubs that line the main strip of Kuta, on the resort island of Bali. The night seems full of promise; of sizzling romance and unfettered fun. However, for hundreds of these partygoers this night will be their last.
    50m
  • EPISODE 2
    One of America's Own
    He seemed the quintessential, hometown American, with a childhood of little league baseball, Santa Claus, and cowboys. But on a bright spring morning in April 1995, Timothy James McVeigh shattered the image and took his place among the pantheon of mass murderers. His homemade bomb blew the face off the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
    50m

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Zero Hour

Documentary

Zero Hour dramatizes the hour leading up to some of the most memorable historical events as they unfold minute by minute. Using a real-time clock and a split screen to follow key players, the series reveals the compelling and exciting minutes leading up to events that changed the world. The focus of the series isn't the event itself, but individual moments that culminate in the actual event

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Studio
Janson Media
Released
2004
Rated
TV-14
Region of Origin
Canada
© 3BM Zero Hour Ltd. and Cineflix (Zero Hour) Productions Inc.

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English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC)

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English (United States) (CC)

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Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
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  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Botswana
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Cape Verde
  • Egypt
  • Eswatini
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • India
  • Israel
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Niger (English)
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  • Saudi Arabia
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