Deadly Disasters (2019)

S01E07 Floods

Water, in massive volumes, wields a force that can obliterate everything in its path. After famine, floods rank as the deadliest natural threat humanity faces, cutting down more lives than any other catastrophe. Through striking visuals and expert analysis from meteorologists like Dr. Christian Reinhardt-Imjela of Berlin University, we examine history’s most harrowing deluges, from the devastating overflow of the Mississippi to the recent crises that swamped New York City and Germany’s Elbe River. Here, we uncover what makes these surges so relentlessly destructive.