The BEST episodes of Zero Hour
Every episode of Zero Hour ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Zero Hour!
This dynamic original series dramatizes the final hour leading up to several pivotal historical events, tracking happenings as they unfold, minute by minute. Using a real-time clock and a split-screen to follow key players, the series reveals the chilling lead-up to events that changed the world including the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, 9/11 and the Columbine shooting.
#1 - SAS Mission Impossible
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/2/2006
On September 10, 2000, the West Side Boys held 6 members of the British Army's Royal Irish Regiment hostage in the jungle of Sierra Leone. In the following rescue attempt, an estimated 56 people were killed, 12 wounded, and 18 WSBs captured.
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#5 - The Lima Siege
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/2/2007
On April 22, 1997, hundreds of high-level diplomats, government and military officials and business executives were freed from the grasp of 14 members of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) during a raid on the Japanese embassy in Lima by Peruvian Armed Forces commandos, during which one hostage, two commandos, and all the MRTA militants died.
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#6 - The North Hollywood Shootout
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/9/2007
On February 28, 1997, two heavily armed bank robbers, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Dechebal Matasareanu, engaged over 300 LAPD officers in a shootout in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. Both robbers were killed, eleven police officers and seven civilians were injured, and numerous vehicles and other property were damaged or destroyed by the nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition fired by the robbers and the police.
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#7 - Shoot-Out in Marseilles
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/2007
On December 26, 1994, members of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) hijacked Air France Flight 8969 in Algiers, in an attempt to destroy the Eiffel Tower. When the aircraft reached Marseille, the GIGN, an intervention group of the French Gendarmerie, stormed the plane and killed all four hijackers. 3 passengers had been killed by the hijackers in Algiers, and 25 others were wounded during the rescue.
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#9 - The Bali Bombing
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/12/2005
A compelling program detailing the minutes leading up to the horrifying event that changed the way Australians think of our favourite holiday destination. Based on first hand witness accounts, official documents and actual footage of events. Including interviews with survivors and re-enactments of what happened in the nightclubs.
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#10 - One of America's Own
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/26/2006
On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P Murrah federal building in downtown Oklahoma City became the site for the most deadly peacetime attack on United States soil to date. As hundreds of employees prepared for the day ahead, a truck parked outside the front of the nine storey building. It then exploded.
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#12 - Massacre at Columbine High
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/12/2004
On April 20, 1999, two bullied teenagers from Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado embarked on a massacre, killing 12 students and one teacher, as well as injuring 24 other students (21 by direct gunfire), before committing suicide.
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#13 - The Last Hour of Flight 11
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/5/2004
Zero Hour: The Last Hour of Flight 11 dramatically recounts the final sixty minutes of American Airlines Flight 11—an hour, and a flight, that changes the world forever. At 08:46 on the morning of September 11, 2001, Flight 11, a fully fueled Boeing 767, explodes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. It is the first terrorist strike on that day of infamy.
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#14 - Disaster at Chernobyl
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/29/2004
At precisely 1.23am on 26 April 1986, the world changed forever. In Pripyat, Ukraine in the Soviet Union, the largest nuclear reactor of its kind exploded at the Chernobyl Power Station.
#15 - Terror in Tokyo
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/19/2004
During a rush-hour morning, Tokyo's elaborate underground Metro system is packed with commuters. They are unaware that it is about to become ground zero for an attempted mass murder. This program reconstructs minute by minute events from 7.46am to 8.46am as five men set out to poison the Tokyo Metro system. It offers personal testimonies of individuals caught up in events beyond their control.
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#16 - Capturing Saddam
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/14/2006
Eight months after the fall of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein is still at large. This is the tense countdown to the capture of Iraq's fugitive dictator.