Disaster Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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

Dave is an amateur film maker who little bit too much of a Nolan and Tarantino fan. When his start making his first movie with friend and family, his...

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

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

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...

For many years the only transportation link across Canada was one railway line. This tenuous, nation-building ribbon of steel was built through high,...

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

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

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