| Shockwave | |
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A screenshot of the title in the introduction of Shockwave. |
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Created by | Cheri Sundae Productions |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Cheri Brownlee Steve Ligerman Richard Wortman |
| Producer(s) | Chris Lehman |
| Editor(s) | David Milhous |
| Running time | 44 minutes (without commercials) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | History |
| Picture format | 1.85:1 |
| Original run | November 30, 2007 – Present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
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 series is a combination of Spike TV's World's Most Amazing Videos, National Geographic Channel's Seconds From Disaster and Situation Critical, Discovery Channel's Destroyed In Seconds and Trutv's Most Daring, mainly because many of the videos and accidents have been featured on these shows, sometimes in more detail.
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 (but are not limited to) the following items:
Each episode has typically three to six stories (or events). 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.