Disaster Movies

In 1996, Universal Pictures released 'Twister', a film about tornado researchers. This documentary revisits the topic, exploring the motivations of...

The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and exclusive...

Concorde was an icon of the skies, but on 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590 left Paris for New York and caught fire during take-off before...

A film cataloguing some of the world's largest catastrophes.

A geologist (John Corbett) investigates a sinkhole under New Orleans that might engulf the city during Mardi Gras.

This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth...

After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.

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...

A swarm of locusts appears on the horizon near a Midwestern town and the inhabitants must find a way to destroy or divert them before the insects...

A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.

During an early, unsuccessful attempt at climbing the Matterhorn, Edward Whymper finds himself rescued by an italian guide, Jean Antoine Carrel. The...

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...

Snow threatens to engulf a small ski resort after snowboarders accidentally trigger a series of avalanches.

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...

The body of a homeless man is found in Cologne not in the Dark Ages, but in the year 2000, where an autopsy reveals that he died of the plague....

Two brothers and an avalanche researcher try to convince endangered villagers that a giant, deadly wall of snow will soon destroy their valley.

An in-depth look at how Italy's largest cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast.

When the MV Sewol ferry sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years...