World's Most Amazing Videos
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| World's Most Amazing Videos | |
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| Genre | Reality |
| Created by | Bruce Nash |
| Narrated by | Erik Thompson |
| Composer(s) | Shawn K. Clement |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Bruce Nash Debra Weeks Andrew Jebb Robyn Nash |
| Running time | 60 min. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | NBC/Spike |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Original airing | 15 July 1999 - 11 December 2000 2006 - current |
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| IMDb profile | |
The World's Most Amazing Videos is a reality television show similar to Real TV and Maximum Exposure. Like these shows, it showcases accidents, disasters, police chases and other extraordinary events that are caught on video camera. Although it is similar in content to Maximum Exposure, it takes a more serious tone. The show originated on NBC as a timeslot filler program. A new series of episodes of the show were created in 2006 first-run for SpikeTV, after a six year hiatus from the NBC stint.[1]
As of September 2007, the show now is shown on Spike. Until very recently, most episodes of the show were narrated by Stacy Keach. The 2008 season is narrated by Erik Thompson.
Stories featured on World's Most Amazing Videos include:
- The Exploding whale
- Hurricane Iniki
- The 1991 sinking of the MTS Oceanos
- The 1988 PEPCON disaster in Henderson, Nevada
- The 1973 eruption of the Eldfell
- Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
- Francisco Martin Duran's shooting outside the White House
- Shawn Nelson's theft of a M60 Patton tank
- Tyke the Elephant's rampage
