Johnstown Flood | Cascade | 3
Against The Odds20 Feb 2024

Johnstown Flood | Cascade | 3

Despite the efforts of engineer John Parke, the South Fork Dam does break. The ensuing flash flood sweeps up a vast, moving wall of debris: mud, rocks, trees, fragments of bridges and smashed-up houses. Residents in Johnstown, including Reverend H.L. Chapman and his family, have mere seconds to flee to higher ground as the floodwaters and debris crash into their homes. The lucky ones find themselves clinging to rooftops amid the raging waters, fighting to survive.

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Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Interview with Chris Turney | 6

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Interview with Chris Turney | 6

Chris Turney is an Earth scientist studying the causes and impacts of environmental and climate change with a focus on the Antarctic. Turney shares tales from his own ambitious expeditions to Antarcti...

14 Sep 202142min

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Hope | 5

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Hope | 5

In a final attempt to get his men home, Ernest Shackleton and his crew have to get through the Drake Passage, the most dangerous stretch of ocean in the world. And that’s just the beginning. When they...

7 Sep 202146min

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Perseverance | 4

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Perseverance | 4

Ernest Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men were finally able to set sail for Elephant Island, but now the boats have been separated. They’ll have to endure the sea’s wrath. Shackleton’s crew m...

31 Aug 202146min

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Determination | 3

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Determination | 3

Ernest Shackleton and his men are trapped on an ice floe off the coast of Antarctica. Tensions are running high, and rations are dwindling quickly. Shackleton is unsure how they are going to survive. ...

24 Aug 202144min

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Patience | 2

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Patience | 2

Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men witness their ship, the Endurance, take a devastating blow against the unforgiving ice off the coast of Antarctica. The men will have to build ca...

17 Aug 202144min

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Obsession | 1

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Obsession | 1

In March 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton works to put together a crew of twenty-eight men to sail from England to Antarctica. It was a new continent untouched by humanity that only the most adventurous me...

10 Aug 202146min

Shipwreck on the Sahara | Interview with Dean King | 5

Shipwreck on the Sahara | Interview with Dean King | 5

Author Dean King traveled across the world to retrace Captain Riley’s footsteps through the Sahara Desert. His book, Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, recounts Riley’s story and King’...

3 Aug 202139min

Shipwreck on the Sahara | The Letter | 4

Shipwreck on the Sahara | The Letter | 4

Sidi Hamet’s family is hundreds of miles away, far across the Sahara. Hamet yearns for his wife but must pay off his debts to his father-in-law before they are reconnected. Meanwhile, Captain James Ri...

27 Jul 202145min

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