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Shockwave

2007–2008 · 1 season

A brisk, sober parade of real disasters retold through footage and testimony, gripping but grim and instructional rather than immersive.

Genres
Documentary
Starring
Jim Forbes, Marvin Heemeyer
Overview
Shockwave is an American documentary television series that premiered on November 30, 2007, on History. The program compiles video footage and eyewitness accounts to the headline making events and attempts to educate the viewer as to what really happened in a particular event. The show depicts the United Airlines Flight 232 crash, USS Forrestal fire, the Killdozer, the Mount Hood hiking incident, the deadly Ramstein airshow disaster, and the PEPCON disaster. The toolbox of resources which the show employs to perform this task include the following items: ⁕Video footage ⁕Photographs ⁕3-D renderings of the event ⁕Eyewitness accounts ⁕Participant accounts Each episode has typically three to six stories. For each, people who witnessed the event or who were involved in the event are interviewed, video footage and photos of the event are shown, and 3-D renderings of the event are shown.

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Genres
Documentary
Starring
Jim Forbes, Marvin Heemeyer
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Tone
    Pacing
    brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • survival
    • death
    • trauma
    • technology
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • true story
    • anthology
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
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    Action4
    Horror3
    Humour1
    Realism9
    Romance0
    Tension6
    Darkness6
    Complexity3
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Starring
    Jim Forbes, Marvin Heemeyer
    Length
    1 seasons, 33 episodes, 44 min each
    Network
    History
    Country
    United States of America
    Languages
    English

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