Movies: Disaster

  • 1984
    Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster

    Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster (1984)

    Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster

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

    Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster
  • 2018
    Forgotten Tragedy: The Story of the St. Francis Dam

    Forgotten Tragedy: The Story of the St. Francis Dam (2018)

    Forgotten Tragedy: The Story of the St. Francis Dam

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    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 water needs. Ever-growing demand led to larger and larger projects, and eventually to tragedy. The histo...

    Forgotten Tragedy: The Story of the St. Francis Dam
  • 2006
    Challenger: Countdown to Disaster

    Challenger: Countdown to Disaster (2006)

    Challenger: Countdown to Disaster

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    Challenger: Countdown to Disaster
  • 1998
    Meteorites!

    Meteorites! (1998)

    Meteorites!

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    A meteor shower threatens a small American town....

    Meteorites!
  • 1977
    Catastrophe

    Catastrophe (1977)

    Catastrophe

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    A film cataloguing some of the world's largest catastrophes....

    Catastrophe
  • 2010
    Inside the Firestorm

    Inside the Firestorm (2010)

    Inside the Firestorm

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    The story of Australia’s worst peacetime disaster On 7th February 2009, Australia suffered its worst peacetime disaster ‘Black Saturday’ claimed 173 lives, left more than 7,000 homeless and destroyed close to half a million hectares of Victorian bush...

    Inside the Firestorm
  • 2019
    Serpendipity

    Serpendipity (2019)

    Serpendipity

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    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 turning people into stone. Will he find love or is this a date with disaster?...

    Serpendipity
  • 1900
    Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies

    Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies (1900)

    Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies

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    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 at the time the picture was taken the odor given out could be detected for miles. The subject shows ...

    Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies
  • 2000
    Die Todeswelle - Eine Stadt in Angst

    Die Todeswelle - Eine Stadt in Angst (2000)

    Die Todeswelle - Eine Stadt in Angst

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    Die Todeswelle - Eine Stadt in Angst
  • 1937
    Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage

    Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)

    Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage

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    The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The hydrogen-filled zeppelin ignited, and was almost instantly transformed into an enormous fireball. In less than a mi...

    Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage
  • 2018
    Disaster Capitalism

    Disaster Capitalism (2018)

    Disaster Capitalism

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    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 powerful nations and multinational corporations to tribal and village leaders. This documentary offers uniqu...

    Disaster Capitalism
  • 1906
    San Francisco Disaster

    San Francisco Disaster (1906)

    San Francisco Disaster

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

    San Francisco Disaster
  • 2015
    Quintinshill: Britain's Deadliest Rail Disaster

    Quintinshill: Britain's Deadliest Rail Disaster (2015)

    Quintinshill: Britain's Deadliest Rail Disaster

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    Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago on 22 May 1915, in which three trains collided at Quintinshill near Gretna Green. One of the trains was a troop train taking soldiers to fight in Worl...

    Quintinshill: Britain's Deadliest Rail Disaster
  • 2006
    Last Days on Earth

    Last Days on Earth (2006)

    Last Days on Earth

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    How secure is our future? This eye-opening documentary -- which uses computer-generated imagery to illustrate an asteroid collision, black holes and worldwide plagues, among other threats -- explores seven scenarios that could spell the end of the wo...

    Last Days on Earth
  • 2015
    Sinking the Lusitania: An American Tragedy

    Sinking the Lusitania: An American Tragedy (2015)

    Sinking the Lusitania: An American Tragedy

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    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 and crew aboard the doomed luxury liner, or the German commander who ordered the deadly attack on Ma...

    Sinking the Lusitania: An American Tragedy
  • 1980
    Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1

    Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1 (1980)

    Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1

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    A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE...

    Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
  • 2018
    13 seconds

    13 seconds (2018)

    13 seconds

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    In November 2017, a devastating earthquake hit western Iran. It took only 13 seconds to lose everything. This is a fleeting observation of the days after the disaster....

    13 seconds
  • 1898
    The Oil Gush in Balakhany

    The Oil Gush in Balakhany (1898)

    The Oil Gush in Balakhany

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    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 International Paris Exhibition. The film was shot using a 35mm film on a Lumière cinematograph. Silent m...

    The Oil Gush in Balakhany
  • 1906
    San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake

    San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake (1906)

    San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake

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    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 included. We see fire raging. We see burned-out buildings, piles of rubble, and buildings with only one wall...

    San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake
  • 2022
    Engineering Tragedy: The Ashtabula Train Disaster

    Engineering Tragedy: The Ashtabula Train Disaster (2022)

    Engineering Tragedy: The Ashtabula Train Disaster

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    The Ashtabula train disaster and bridge collapse was the worst train disaster of the 19th century, claiming the lives of 97 people. The engineering and structural failures that caused the collapse of a bridge that stood for over a decade, also took d...

    Engineering Tragedy: The Ashtabula Train Disaster