The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The hydrogen-filled zeppelin ignited, and was almost instantly transformed into an enormous fireball. In less than a minute, the entire ship had been consumed by flames. The Hindenburg explosion marked the end of the budding airship travel industry.
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
Re-examines the dramatic events of Boxing Day 2004, and investigates the new science of Tsunami fore...
Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth...
March 27, 1977. At 2:00 in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airpo...
British Steam Railway Disasters is the definitive DVD collection of newsreel reports covering no fe...
Classic Railway Newsreels Steam & Modern, with John Huntley Part 1 and Part 2 on one DVD, a trul...
Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkels...
Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes follows the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew, spec...
On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industri...
A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.
This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and reck...
This short is one of Paramount's "Popular Science" series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946...
Three years in the making in conjunction with the BBC. Using never seen before home movies, photos a...
From the banks of the Bahamas to the seas of Argentina, we go underwater to meet dolphins. Two scien...
Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the myste...
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in w...