Earthquake Movies

Songlines sung by earthquakes.

On September 19, 2017, at 1:14 p.m., an earthquake devastated Mexico City and its environs. Immediately, citizens mobilized to help, including the...

In the beautiful underwater reefs off the coast of Florida's pastoral Pajaro Island, a fissure rips open in the ocean floor. When graduate student...

Survivors witness the terror and devastation brought by a massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Chile in 2010.

Downtown has become a frontier of creativity where new ideas flourish. From raw and tragic beginnings, it has grown from a groundswell of spontaneous...

Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.

This ensemble drama details the friendships that grow between survivors of the 1997 Umbria earthquake. The townsfolk—adults, children and...

Two cowboys aim to reclaim stolen jewels and money in this 1950 Western.

Shot in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the documentary looks at what really happens with the money donated to help with disaster aid.

An earthquake has hit the city and a family must seek refuge before its too late.

Based on author's childhood memories of the devastating 1988 Spitak earthquake. The father and his two young kids are left without a home and above...

A worldwide scientific investigation on tsunamis. Thanks to exclusive access in Palu, Indonesia, follow the UN’s hand-picked scientific team of...

A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast...

In 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with the earthquake. Unemployed widower Fujio Murai’s...

After Gonta is left behind reluctantly by its family in Namie, Fukushima during the evacuation due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami...

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

The earthquake that struck Friuli in 1976 is still vivid in the collective imagination, for how it served as an example in the subsequent...