Disaster Movies

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

During an early, unsuccessful attempt at climbing the Matterhorn, Edward Whymper finds himself rescued by an italian guide, Jean Antoine Carrel. The...

Humanity makes much progress through a combination of science and magic, until a large war breaks out. Many years later, the magical city of Sosarium...

Eight months after the Chernobyl disaster, a Chernobylite woman that stayed behind to care for her sick mother gives birth to a mutated daughter. She...

A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the...

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

How Stockton Rush's deadly dive to the fabled Titanic wreckage in the Titan submersible became a cautionary tale about the risks of innovation.

As locals are gearing up for Christmas festivities, a devastating cyclone is brewing in the Arafura Sea. Feeling dragged down by sleepy domestic...

When a massive earthquake submerges several subway cars underground, a group of misfit passengers band together to get to the surface or die trying.

On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very...

After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.

In the German North Sea a new cellular life form endangers mankind.

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

Snow threatens to engulf a small ski resort after snowboarders accidentally trigger a series of avalanches.

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...

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

Record of the 1937 German Expedition to Nanga Parbat, led by Karl Wien. This was the third German expedition to the mountain, and the team followed...

In March 2011, Japan was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, with the devastating tsunami that followed causing a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear...

The airline "Dream Air" is on the verge of bankruptcy - as the flight of another airline is overbooked, the airline is naturally happy to help out...

Virus alert in Cologne: a deadly influenza pathogen has been released. Shortly afterwards, Sonja Kessler finds her husband Reinhard, a virus...