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An example of such censorship within the first season is the cutting of a few scenes during the coverage of the Columbine High School Massacre due to footage which contained excessive violence, profanity and racial epithets. Other episodes from the first season, which only consists of four episodes, focused on the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11, and the coordinated sarin gas attack in Tokyo's subway system during the 1980s.
The second season was expanded to a six episode run and highlighted the bombing of two nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, the bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the sinking of the MS Estonia cruise ferry, the downfall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, the capture of Saddam Hussein by American military forces, the Grey Wolves' 1981 plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II. The third season kept the same episode count as the second but covered the British Army's Operation Barras, the disintegrating re-entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the Nepalese royal massacre carried out by Crown Prince Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah, the 1997 Peruvian hostage crisis by the T
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Shoot-Out in Marseilles chronicles the final sixty minutes of a two-day stand-off between Algerian hijackers and France's counter terrorist unit. Air France flight 8969 had first been hijacked in Algiers and was then permitted by Algerian authorities to fly to Marseilles.
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Zero Hour 3: Falling Star counts down the final hour of one of the most catastrophic events in the history of space aviation when the space shuttle Columbia, the most advanced vehicle ever built, disintegrates in a fireball in the sky over Texas. A story about the loss of seven lives on a mission that was doomed from the start, Zero Hour.
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On April 22 1997 in Lima Peru, a deadly game is in play for the lives of 72 men, held hostage for 126 days by a revolutionary guerrilla movement at the Japanese Ambassador's residence. On one side of the siege is Nestor Cerpa Cartolini, a revolutionary and desperate man willing to kill for the woman he loves; on the other side a ruthless and corrupt political czar, Vladimiro Montesinos.
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As six British soldiers sit imprisoned in a hut in the jungles of Sierra Leone, their captors - a heavily-armed militia group known as the West Side Boys - are mostly sleeping. But unknown to either group, an audacious SAS rescue mission is moments away. Zero Hour arrives as 5 helicopters carrying more than 120 paratroopers appear over the horizon.
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The brutal massacre of ten members of the Nepalese Royal Family in June 2001 shocked the world, and brought a nation to the brink of destruction. As the whole of Nepal struggled to come to terms with the senseless slaughter, many refused to believe the truth: that Crown Prince Dipendra had gunned down nine members of his own family.
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As two armed-robbers terrorize staff and customers inside a Bank of America branch in San Fernando Valley, North Hollywood, they are oblivious to the mounting police presence outside the building. The scene is set for the most extraordinary and violent shootout in modern American police history.
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Zero Hour 2 - Capturing Saddam reconstructs the final hour of the raid leading to the capture of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator reviled and feared crimes committed against his people; the mass poisoning of Kurds; torture and executions in his macabre prisons; the invasion of Kuwait; and the brutal suppression of the Shia uprising in 1991.
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To some, Pablo Escobar was the greatest criminal in history. A brutal man who terrorized, tortured and murdered thousands as the billionaire king of the Columbian cocaine racket. To others, he was a Robin Hood - giving back to the very poorest the money made from selling drugs to the spoiled and decadent rich. But saint or sinner, in his final hour, Escobar cuts a pathetic figure.
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In the evening of September 27, 1994 The Estonia, one of the largest passenger/car ferries in the world, sets sail from the Estonian capital of Tallinn. She is bound for Stockholm in Sweden but she will never arrive. Six hours into her voyage, catastrophe strikes the 500-foot long ship and she sinks to the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
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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.
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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.
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Laila begins leaving clues for Hank. With the help of his team, they begin to close in on Vincent, hot on his heels as both pursue a mystery which Albert Einstein himself arranged.
Hank and Beck follow a star map to India in search of another of the apostles, Doubting Thomas. Arron and Rachel discover a note hidden in a journal from the Nazi shanty.
Hank Galliston's wife Laila is kidnapped by FBI's most wanted terrorist after she purchases a clock that holds a secret. Hank and his friends Arron and Rachel investigate, as Hank argues with FBI agent Beck over how to get his wife back... but there's more to this kidnapping than they can possibly imagine.
