Disaster Movies

Survivors of the February 6, 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye recount their experiences of the disaster, its aftermath and the solidarity that...

After a massive earthquake cut the South Island town of Kaikōura off from the rest of the country, a huge effort went into rebuilding the road...

The story of Australia’s worst peacetime disaster On 7th February 2009, Australia suffered its worst peacetime disaster ‘Black...

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...

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 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 largest man-made disaster of the 20th century, now largely lost to history. A journey through the early history of Los Angeles and the city's...

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

A documentary that reveals the underbelly of the global aid and investment industry. It's a complex web of interests that span the earth from...

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

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

For many years the only transportation link across Canada was one railway line. This tenuous, nation-building ribbon of steel was built through high,...

This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco...

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...

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

This is a film about the response by a community to New Zealand’s largest environmental disaster, seen through the eyes of that community. The...

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

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...