Disaster Movies

A documentary covering the harrowing tragedy of the SS Morro Castle.

Based on a true story from the borderlines of the war by Russia on Ukraine. Mother tells the story of Vitaly Ivanov – a miner on the...

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...

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...

A minute-by-minute account of the Boxing Day 2004 Tsunami told through amateur video footage of people who were there.

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...

The story of Australia’s worst peacetime disaster On 7th February 2009, Australia suffered its worst peacetime disaster ‘Black...

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...

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

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...

This is a film about the response by a community to New Zealand’s largest environmental disaster, seen through the eyes of that community. The...

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

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

An in-depth look at how Italy's largest cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast.

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...

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...

Apocalyptic 1980 ECO MONDO narrated by the master of creepy camp VINCENT PRICE featuring some spectacular (disaster) and occasionally graphic footage.

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