Bangkok--17 Dec--Image Impact
Title: Tsunami
Channel: HISTORY on TrueVisions A23 and D48
Date & Time: Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 10.00 p.m.
This is the incredible story of the 2004 Tsunami as it’s never been seen before. Told almost entirely through amateur archive footage, we deliver a powerful and very human story of confusion and panic, of heartbreak and heroism, of death and miraculous survival.
The Boxing day Tsunami was the most devastating natural disaster in recorded history — almost 230,000 people were killed. And as the catastrophe unfolded, remarkable amateur video footage emerged. It was shot by people from all around the vast impact area and depicted the terror and chaos they experienced as the massive waves struck land.
Now that footage will be collated into one film: a minute-by-minute account of the devastation, told by the people who were there. We will trace the disaster’s terrible seven-hour timeline and massive geographic range, from the initial undersea earthquake, to the sweeping arc of destruction around the Indian Ocean, and the immediate and tragic aftermath.