While the subject is both terrifying to think about, and violent in its action, every attempt is made to focus on the combination of reasons for the failure: technical; weather; and/or human error, rather than lurid coverage of a blood-filled scene. Think: Law & Order, with less fake blood. There is no gratuitous gore; at most, there are injuries done with make-up. It pays to remember that the camera crews were not onsite for the crashes; it's staged, so empathy for passenger and crew victims, and their families is implicit in the scripting... but tragic loss is a given. Judge how impressionable your kids are; could they bear up at the open-casket funeral of a stranger? Sympathy can be learned; empathy is born or experience and observation.Putting on my parental hat, I'd watch this with 10- to 12-year-olds and up (depending on the individuals). Unlike so much video drivel, there are opportunities for thought, learning, career consideration and more. After all, it's on the Smithsonian Channel!