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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona...

The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic recon...

Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago ...

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

A documentary covering the harrowing tragedy of the SS Morro Castle.

How secure is our future? This eye-opening documentary -- which uses computer-generated imagery to i...

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

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

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

Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an explora...
This U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) video uses expert testimony and computer-animated reenactments...

After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an ...

The enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twel...