Business 115: Crisis Management - Valparaiso

In the 1960s, Pan Am was at the forefront of the jet age and was viewed as the epitome in quality airline service. But, as this program examines, the 1988 terrorist bombing of Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, was a blow from which the legendary brand never recovered. Learn about crises that affected Kellogg's, Ford, BP and Tylenol. A BBC Production.

In this A&E Special, the renowned Threat Assessment Group comes to Littleton, Colorado, to perform a psychiatric autopsy to better understand why Harris and Klebold killed. Armed with that information, TAG hopes to educate parents, teachers, and students on how to see the warning signs of impending violence and intervene appropriately to stop such tragedies before they take place somewhere else. Distributed by A&E Television Networks.

In 1993, gunman Damacio Torres shot up the Los Angeles County-USC Healthcare emergency room and took two hostages. Using the Torres case as a springboard, this program explains the tricky business of hostage negotiation while seeking to understand the mentality of hostage-taking.

Much as technology leaps forward during times of war, the Ebola outbreak that began in 2014 is forcing medical science to evolve as quickly as the virus it's fighting. Scientists and medical practitioners working at the front lines of disease prevention and control are finding breakthrough ways to fight pandemic viruses, from antibiotics and vaccines to computer programs that predict how viruses spread. These life-saving tools, battle-tested in the current crisis, will be used to fight a wide range of killer viruses in the near future. A National Geographic Production.

In this program, leading experts from both the U.S. and the former Soviet Union provide chilling commentary on why bioterrorism is likely to become a global threat, citing recent incidents as well as the once-classified results of a 1966 joint U.S. Army/CIA bio-weapon experiment conducted in the New York City subway. Dramatizations of simulated terrorist attacks and laboratory techniques bring home the relative ease of manufacture and extreme lethality of these weapons.

One year after Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans, director Spike Lee presents a four-hour, four-part chronicle recounting, through words and images, one of our country’s most profound natural disasters.

A project is underway that uses big data to clarify what happened to the more than 20,000 people who died or went missing in the Great East Japan Earthquake. With private industry, government, and academia working together, new tools are also being developed to cope with future disasters. This documentary traces what motivated people to do what they did on the day of the earthquake, while showing how big data provides an understanding that goes beyond photographic and video images.

During the last days of April 2011, the United States experienced one of the worst tornado outbreaks in its history. This program looks at the public safety response to such a catastrophe, interviewing the officers involved and asking what lessons there are to be learned. Crucial information on search and rescue, crowd control, looting and loss prevention, dealing with the media, and more is provided. Part of the series In the Line of Duty, Volume 14.

Rented by the BP oil company to drill an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes on April 20, 2010, before sinking into the ocean and causing a gigantic oil spill. At issue: negligence in the maintenance and in the tests carried out. On September 19, after months of unsuccessful attempts, the spill is finally declared sealed. But the harm has been done: this incident has generated the biggest marine oil disaster in history, tragically impacting the local ecosystems and economy.

From Emmy®-winning filmmakers Marc Levin and Daphne Pinkerson, this 40-minute documentary recounts the horror of March 25, 1911, when 146 young garment workers perished in the worst industrial accident in New York City history (up until 9/11), triggering widespread reforms and ushering in the birth of the modern labor movement. An HBO Production.