Disaster Movies
- 2022
Engineering Tragedy: The Ashtabula Train Disaster
Engineering Tragedy: The Ashtabula Train Disaster102022HD
The Ashtabula train disaster and bridge collapse was the worst train disaster of the 19th century, claiming the lives of 97 people. The engineering...
- 1998
Jameln Cafe Grenzbereiche
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A found footage experiment made using footage from a 50s disaster film. Slowed down audio and lots of distorted textures are present.
- 2015
The Day West Shook Texas
The Day West Shook Texas02015HD
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.
- 1906
Exploded Gas Tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels' Bldg.
Exploded Gas Tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels' Bldg.01906HD
The camera scrolls through a landscape to reveal the aftermath of a huge gas explosion.
- 2021
The Devil’s Fire
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THE DEVIL'S FIRE is an original documentary from WSKG Public Television and filmmaker Brian Frey. Utilizing never-before-seen photographs and...
- 1906
San Francisco Disaster
San Francisco Disaster41906HD
This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco...
- 2003
The Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood62003HD
On a stormy day in May of 1889, the South Fork Dam impounding Conemaugh Lake exploded, unleashing a 40-foot wall of water. The bustling industrial...
- 2019
Roads from Hell: Caught on Camera
Roads from Hell: Caught on Camera02019HD
Jaw-dropping real-life footage, from the funny to the dramatic, reveals exactly what can go wrong when we venture onto the roads
- 1898
The Launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall
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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...
- 2006
Challenger: Countdown to Disaster
Challenger: Countdown to Disaster3.82006HD
- 1970
Earth Under Fire
Earth Under Fire0.51970HD
Ancient myths tell of catastrophic destruction by fire and flood. The legends are so extreme that they are often dismissed. Earth Under Fire connects...
- 2014
Gimli Glider: 30 Years Later
Gimli Glider: 30 Years Later02014HD
Reg Sherren revisits the players and the places that were critical in the Gimli Glider incident of July 1983.
- 2013
Comet: A Great British Air Disaster
Comet: A Great British Air Disaster02013HD
The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into service, two aircraft blew up in mid-air, killing...
- 2022
Megalomania
Megalomania102022HD
- 2018
Goldman Crash
Goldman Crash02018HD
The World Trade Centre attack was perhaps a foretold disaster waiting to happen. The proof is in this highly incandescent film: a rapid-fire montage...
- 2018
13 seconds
13 seconds02018HD
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...