Disaster Movies

Jaw-dropping real-life footage, from the funny to the dramatic, reveals exactly what can go wrong when we venture onto the roads

The Ashtabula train disaster and bridge collapse was the worst train disaster of the 19th century, claiming the lives of 97 people. The engineering...

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

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

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...

Reg Sherren revisits the players and the places that were critical in the Gimli Glider incident of July 1983.

Short version of the film 'Kampf um den Himalaja', released for the home market. The film shows images of the 1937 German expedition to Nanga Parbat,...