Disaster Movies

Friday, November 7, 2025, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the devastating explosion at the chemical company DSM in the Limburg town of Beek. Kefah...

Ancient myths tell of catastrophic destruction by fire and flood. The legends are so extreme that they are often dismissed. Earth Under Fire connects...

Jaw-dropping real-life footage, from the funny to the dramatic, reveals exactly what can go wrong when we venture onto the roads

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

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...

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

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...

Anna Osborn and Sonia Rockhouse were forever changed when the Pike River Mine Disaster stole their loved ones, but instead of sitting down, they...

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

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...

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...