Disaster Movies

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

British Steam Railway Disasters is the definitive DVD collection of newsreel reports covering no fewer than 55 incidents from the steam era between...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

After a series of disasters, nothing is left of human civillisation. All that remains are the people left behind who live in a post-apocalyptic no...

THE DEVIL'S FIRE is an original documentary from WSKG Public Television and filmmaker Brian Frey. Utilizing never-before-seen photographs and...

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

Ancient myths tell of catastrophic destruction by fire and flood. The legends are so extreme that they are often dismissed. Earth Under Fire connects...

The camera scrolls through a landscape to reveal the aftermath of a huge gas explosion.

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.

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...