Disaster Movies

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...

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

Three years in the making in conjunction with the BBC. Using never seen before home movies, photos and eye witness accounts - this is the inside...

The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The...

A disastrous cyclone strands a rich girl and a poor man on a secluded island.

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

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

Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

A documentary covering the harrowing tragedy of the SS Morro Castle.

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

As locals are gearing up for Christmas festivities, a devastating cyclone is brewing in the Arafura Sea. Feeling dragged down by sleepy domestic...

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing tour over Antarctica. Within hours 11 ordinary...

Virus alert in Cologne: a deadly influenza pathogen has been released. Shortly afterwards, Sonja Kessler finds her husband Reinhard, a virus...

THE DEVIL'S FIRE is an original documentary from WSKG Public Television and filmmaker Brian Frey. Utilizing never-before-seen photographs and...

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...

On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of...

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...

With five days until an asteroid named Maveth impacts Earth, three groups of people must confront the lives they're living and choose how to spend...