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.

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

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

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

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

On April 15, 2019 600 firefighters of the Paris Fire Brigade fought for over 7 hours to save the Not...

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

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

Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinemati...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...

From heart-stopping close shaves and averted disasters to incredible brushes with danger, this show ...

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

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

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

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

After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an ...
Discusses essential scuba diving safety and rescue techniques. It highlights the importance of follo...

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

An engine fire leaves 4,000 passengers stranded at sea without power and plumbing in this wild docum...

A powerful documentary that sheds some light on what really happened at the Fukushima nuclear power ...

On a stormy day in May of 1889, the South Fork Dam impounding Conemaugh Lake exploded, unleashing a ...