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

On August 29, 2005, Rockey Vaccarella rode out Hurricane Katrina on his roof by holding on to a rope...

In September of 1938, a great storm rose up on the coast of West Africa and began making its way acr...

After the disaster of March 2011, the Japanese authorities decided to build a gigantic 15 meter high...

This U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) video uses expert testimony and computer-animated reenactments...

Lost somewhere over the Pacific in a single-engine Cessna with low fuel, a pilot (Scott Bakula) awai...

Global warming in context. What the climate of the past tells us about the climate of the future.

The "unsinkable" Titanic was a dream come true: four city blocks long and a passenger list worth 250...

Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow return to Pompeii to gain special access to a varie...

A film cataloguing some of the world's largest catastrophes.

National Geographic gets 10 experts to pick the most significant natural disasters ever, adding eyew...

Restoration expert Giancarlo Napoli takes on the important task of saving 86 plaster casts of Pompei...

Starting off a kilometre high, travelling at the speed of a jet aircraft, and heading for us. It doe...

On a secret military base a group of scientists have made a discovery unequaled since the invention ...

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

Having taken the blame for an accident beyond his control, pilot Mike Hogan has been on administrati...

Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an explora...

Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...

Also known as the "Kobe earthquake," the massive earthquake struck the southern Hyogo prefecture on ...