Disaster Movies

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...

While on assignment covering a volcanic eruption journalist Russell Woods' life is shattered when his wife is killed in the ensuing carnage. Grieving...

On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very...

Also known as the "Kobe earthquake," the massive earthquake struck the southern Hyogo prefecture on January 17, 1995 and resulted in more than 6,400...

Virus alert in Cologne: a deadly influenza pathogen has been released. Shortly afterwards, Sonja Kessler finds her husband Reinhard, a virus...

When cholera-tainted shrimp from Mexico is served to people on a Los Angeles-bound plane, an outbreak ensues and a doctor sets out to find and...

Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an exploration of what happened as told from...

A swarm of locusts appears on the horizon near a Midwestern town and the inhabitants must find a way to destroy or divert them before the insects...

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 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...

When the MV Sewol ferry sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years...

The body of a homeless man is found in Cologne not in the Dark Ages, but in the year 2000, where an autopsy reveals that he died of the plague....

Snow threatens to engulf a small ski resort after snowboarders accidentally trigger a series of avalanches.

As locals are gearing up for Christmas festivities, a devastating cyclone is brewing in the Arafura Sea. Feeling dragged down by sleepy domestic...

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...

On Christmas Eve in 1986, an Icelandic cargo ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Of the eleven men on board, five lived. This is the remarkable...

A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the...

Survivors of the February 6, 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye recount their experiences of the disaster, its aftermath and the solidarity that...