Disaster Movies

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...

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

It's millennium eve. At the stroke of midnight, the Y2K computer bug kicks in, causing widespread chaos in the U.S.

"Search For The Mothman" is a documentary that explores the unusual disturbances, odd sightings, bizarre occurrences, and strange eyewitness reports...

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

While Tropical Storm Allison brings one of the worst floods to hit Houston rages outside, the staff of Hermann hospital races against time to ensure...

A young math genius discovers a huge solar storm on the verge of destroying the Earth's power grid and he must alert the world before a powerful...

How secure is our future? This eye-opening documentary -- which uses computer-generated imagery to illustrate an asteroid collision, black holes and...

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...

Having taken the blame for an accident beyond his control, pilot Mike Hogan has been on administrative leave indefinitely; however when the airline...

Relationship problems between a father and son are intensified by Hurricane Andrew.

A geologist (John Corbett) investigates a sinkhole under New Orleans that might engulf the city during Mardi Gras.

The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The...

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...

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...

Ben Fogle spends a week living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, gaining privileged access to the doomed Control Room 4 where the disaster first...

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

The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult...

The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and exclusive...