Disaster Movies

A poor family returns to their village from Dhaka after The Great Bengal Femine 1943. This movie centers on their struggling life during the World...

On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 went down as it was leaving Iranian air space. All 176 people on board were killed,...

A film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the...

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...

Eight months after the Chernobyl disaster, a Chernobylite woman that stayed behind to care for her sick mother gives birth to a mutated daughter. She...

The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into service, two aircraft blew up in mid-air, killing...

An animated film made without the use of a camera using the technique of drawing and painting directly on a film strip, illustrating a grandfather's...

The history of lighter than air transportation culminating in the Hindenburg explosion which gets thoroughly covered and analyzed.

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

On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very...

Re-examines the dramatic events of Boxing Day 2004, and investigates the new science of Tsunami forecasting.

At 7:14 am on 30 June 1908, the largest explosion recorded in human history to date reverberated throughout our planet. The force of the explosion...

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

A one hour documentary on the aftermath of the 2013 Alberta Floods in the town of High River.

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

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...

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

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

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are...