Movies: Disaster

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

From heart-stopping close shaves and averted disasters to incredible brushes with danger, this show counts up from 1 to 101 to feature some of the most unbelievable near misses of all time....

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 War II period....

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Re-examines the dramatic events of Boxing Day 2004, and investigates the new science of Tsunami forecasting....

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

On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of migrant workers who are forced to work here under harsh conditions. He has been estranged for two months f...

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

Introducing the Ace Cinematic Universe...

At 7:14 am on 30 June 1908, the largest explosion recorded in human history to date reverberated throughout our planet. The force of the explosion was two thousand times that of the Hiroshima bomb. A woodland area the size of Luxembourg was eradicate...

Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering and human failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, a self-taught engineer who ensured the growth of Los Angeles by ...

The history of lighter than air transportation culminating in the Hindenburg explosion which gets thoroughly covered and analyzed....

An animated film made without the use of a camera using the technique of drawing and painting directly on a film strip, illustrating a grandfather's ballad, the protagonist of which seeks an explanation for the cruel phenomena of the world around him...

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

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?...

Reg Sherren revisits the players and the places that were critical in the Gimli Glider incident of July 1983....

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

"Search For The Mothman" is a documentary that explores the unusual disturbances, odd sightings, bizarre occurrences, and strange eyewitness reports connected to a creature known as the "Mothman" (first sighted in the Point Pleasant, West Virginia ar...

This U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) video uses expert testimony and computer-animated reenactments to describe and discuss its detailed investigation into the March 23 2005 explosion of the ISOM (isomerization) unit at the BP (British Petroleum) re...

A disastrous cyclone strands a rich girl and a poor man on a secluded island....