On Christmas Eve in 1986, an Icelandic cargo ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Of the eleven men on board, five lived. This is the remarkable story of the heroic rescue mission that brought them home.

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

The film follows a group of three winter mountaineers and a pair of winter climbers on a typical day...

12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...

The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...

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

How Stockton Rush's deadly dive to the fabled Titanic wreckage in the Titan submersible became a cau...

Sangduen Chailert, or Lek, as she is generally known, has already rescued over 200 elephants. She ha...

After a freak accident, experienced caver George Linnane was left with multiple life-threatening inj...

Standing almost alone in the great Southern Ocean, South Georgia island plays host to some of the la...

Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge ...

Bobbing around on Mediterranean waters aboard the Ocean Viking, aid workers from the French relief s...

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capit...

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

The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the m...

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

Ferdinand de Lesseps, known as “The Great Frenchman”, will embark in the greatest adventure of his l...

Survivors, witnesses, and experts tell the story of the tragic fire that engulfed a residential towe...

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

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