A four-episode, documentary series for Dutch Public Television that focuses on the mass evacuation of 250.000 inhabitants of the eastern part of the Netherlands in 1995, as the country was under threat of the worst flooding of the 20th century.
After weeks of heavy rain and rising tides in the rivers Rhine, Waal and Meuse, the Dutch government worried the country’s system of dikes might collapse and ordered a mass evacuation of population centres.

High Tides investigates the impact this national crisis had on the lives of those involved. The series aired in February of 2020, exactly 25 years after the mass evacuation took place.

This episode was broadcast on February 3.