Disaster Movies

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

The 2 protagonists, Trifon and his assistant, Vassilakis work as plumbers, try to survive with dignity, but instead they destroy everything they...

David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.

An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona, triggers the labour struggle of a group of...

The sinking of the Lusitania and the impact it had in determining the fate of World War I is widely known. But few know the stories of the passengers...

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...

Introducing the Ace Cinematic Universe

Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering and human failure, the...

The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of...

THE DEVIL'S FIRE is an original documentary from WSKG Public Television and filmmaker Brian Frey. Utilizing never-before-seen photographs and...

2010 on the Canterbury Plains and all is well. Lambs, blue skies and daffodils. In Cathedral Square choir boys sing to their God. Punts push new...

Apocalyptic 1980 ECO MONDO narrated by the master of creepy camp VINCENT PRICE featuring some spectacular (disaster) and occasionally graphic footage.

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot...

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

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...

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

A poor family returns to their village from Dhaka after The Great Bengal Femine 1943. This movie centers on their struggling life during the World...

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