Disaster Movies

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

The largest man-made disaster of the 20th century, now largely lost to history. A journey through the early history of Los Angeles and the city's...

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.