Disaster Movies

A strong-willed matriarch and her family leave their fishing village for Manila after an oil spill.

Gordon does not want to freeze during his dinner date. Not only is Gordon nervous, but he has a secret- he has snakes for hair with a bad habit of...

On a stormy day in May of 1889, the South Fork Dam impounding Conemaugh Lake exploded, unleashing a 40-foot wall of water. The bustling industrial...

An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona, triggers the labour struggle of a group of...

British Steam Railway Disasters is the definitive DVD collection of newsreel reports covering no fewer than 55 incidents from the steam era between...

The World Trade Centre attack was perhaps a foretold disaster waiting to happen. The proof is in this highly incandescent film: a rapid-fire montage...

The catastrophic and avoidable coal mining disaster at the Knox Mine is recounted by the people who lived through the tragedy.

After a series of disasters, nothing is left of human civillisation. All that remains are the people left behind who live in a post-apocalyptic no...

The film documents the launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall on the 21st of June, 1898—an event that was witnessed by 30,000 onlookers, 37 of whom...

This shows the heart of one of the tremendous drifts in the east end of Galveston. Hundreds of dead bodies are concealed in these immense masses, and...

Ancient myths tell of catastrophic destruction by fire and flood. The legends are so extreme that they are often dismissed. Earth Under Fire connects...

The film is a documentary on the day April 17, 2013, when West, a small farm community in Texas was changed forever by a devastating explosion.

Reg Sherren revisits the players and the places that were critical in the Gimli Glider incident of July 1983.

In November 2017, a devastating earthquake hit western Iran. It took only 13 seconds to lose everything. This is a fleeting observation of the days...

Jaw-dropping real-life footage, from the funny to the dramatic, reveals exactly what can go wrong when we venture onto the roads

On April 4, 1979, TWA Flight 841 came within seconds of crashing following a mysterious nosedive. In an exceptional television documentary, CBS News...

A found footage experiment made using footage from a 50s disaster film. Slowed down audio and lots of distorted textures are present.