Watch Zero Hour
- TV-14
- 2013
- 3 Seasons
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Zero Hour is a Canadian and British documentary series from 2004. Over the course of its three seasons and sixteen episodes, each of which were forty five to fifty minutes long, each episode of Zero Hour covered a particular terrorist attack or other man-made tragedy. This coverage included the initial build up to the event, such as the Chernobyl Disaster of 1986, and the end result of the tragedy. Due to the nature of such a program, specific episodes would be edited for content when airing on a given cable channel. 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
