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...

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

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

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

The Ashtabula train disaster and bridge collapse was the worst train disaster of the 19th century, claiming the lives of 97 people. The engineering...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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

The camera scrolls through a landscape to reveal the aftermath of a huge gas explosion.