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.
Thanks to his perseverance, the Italian Simone Moro has written pages in the history of mountaineeri...
On the 19th of November 2010, the Pike River mine exploded with 31 men trapped inside. In the immedi...
12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...
The first transatlantic communications cable, traversing the ocean floor from Valentia Island, Count...
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...
On the morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of ships reached the French coast of Normandy as part of a...
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 ...
Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California histor...
Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge ...
An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capit...
The "unsinkable" Titanic was a dream come true: four city blocks long and a passenger list worth 250...
On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...
Ben Fogle spends a week living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, gaining privileged access to the...
A film cataloguing some of the world's largest catastrophes.
On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 went down as it was leaving Iranian ai...
This U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) video uses expert testimony and computer-animated reenactments...
The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the m...
On April 26, 1986, a 1,000 feet high flame rises into the sky of the Ukraine. The fourth reactor of ...
After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an ...