Disaster Movies

From heart-stopping close shaves and averted disasters to incredible brushes with danger, this show counts up from 1 to 101 to feature some of the...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

Two weeks after the first attack, some videos of the monster attack on Resiliant, are released

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 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 film is a documentary on the day April 17, 2013, when West, a small farm community in Texas was changed forever by a devastating explosion.

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...

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

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

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

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